OUAGADOUGOU, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso's ruling party said in a statement on Monday that President Roch Marc Christian Kabore had survived an assassination attempt. The statement added that what began as a mutiny by some soldiers on Sunday was rapidly evolving into a coup. ■...
OUAGADOUGOU, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The ruling party of Burkina Faso, People's Movement for Progress (PMP), said in a statement on Monday that it was a "failed assassination attempt" on President Roch Kabore. According to the statement, "simple mutiny initiated by some elements of the army ...
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THE military junta in Burkina Faso that took power in a coup has freed interim President Michel Kafando and two of his ministers from detention, the junta’s leader said yesterday as security forces fired in the air to quell protests. ...
Burkina Faso Names Coup Leader Traore as Transitional President More Reuters A man wearing clothes with Russian's flag colours shouts during a demonstration in front of the conference room where the two days of national talks to adopt a transitional charter and designate an interim presiden...
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A native of Burkina Faso, Ouedraogo and her family immigrated to the U.S. in June 2017, when she enrolled her children in Triumph, Inc. Head Start in Taunton, Massachusetts while she attended nursing school. She met Warren, D-Mass., in 2021 during a roundtable discussion at the school,...
By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday. ...
BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The president of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kabore, will pay a state visit to China from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5, during which he will also attend the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit in Beijing. ...