OUAGADOUGOU, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was sworn in as the new president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday. The swearing-in ceremony was broadcast live on Burkina Faso's public television RTB. Damiba, head of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration ...
16 (Xinhua) -- Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was sworn in as the new president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday in a televised ceremony. Damiba, head of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration, took his oath in front of the Constitutional Council to "preserve, ...
President of Burkina Faso Steps DownDemonstrations against the president's plans to stay in powerafter 27 years led to the...Herve TaokoAlan Cowell
Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore wins re-election, provisional tally shows
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...
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. ...
bold move Is Ghana warming up to Burkina Faso despite ECOWAS tension and strained ties?The presence of Burkina Faso’s military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, at the inauguration of Ghanaian President John Mahama has sparked intense publ... ...
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. The charismatic Marxist revolut...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo, former prime minister (1996-2000) of the ousted president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, on Saturday announced his candidacy for the 2020 pr
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,...