Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

USAID lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid after the Trump administration froze foreign funding and idled staff, a government watchdog warned Monday.

Officials and federal officers turned away scores of U.S. Agency for International staffers who showed up for work Monday at ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Burkina Faso is a west African dryland country known for its diverse ecosystems, including savannas, forests and wetlands. Large herbivores like elephant, giraffe and hippopotamus, and predators like ...

Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and the financing of terrorism, said global police body Interpol on Thursday.

French forces have been ousted in recent years from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso following years of fighting Islamic extremists alongside regional troops. Those countries have moved closer to Moscow, ...

(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally ...

The Tilton Veterinarian Hospital in Tilton and owner Sara Laroux, D.V.M., have agreed to pay the government $53,500 to resolve allegations they failed to keep accurate records of controlled ...

Experts dubbed those countries a “coup belt.” Among others, that belt includes Burkina Faso. Russia and the juntas frame the anti-West glissade as a start of decolonization processes leading ...