The watchdog made the assertions in a report based on its own investigation into the reported execution of around 170 people in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso’s northern Yatenga ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday three episodes involving the militia in Burkina Faso have resulted in the forced disappearances and purported deaths of 18 men, the execution of at least ...

Some 170 people including women and children have been "executed" in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso, a public prosecutor has said. Aly Benjamin Coulibaly appealed for witnesses to help ...

The latest execution in Burkina Faso was in 1988, according to rights group Amnesty International. It concerned four leaders accused of an attempted coup d’état to depose president Blaise ...

A Burkina Faso rights group on Thursday accused the military of carrying out the "summary execution" of at least 60 people in an anti-jihadist operation last month. Burkina's capital Ouagadougou ...

Tension in the Sahel, especially in crisis-ridden Burkina Faso and Mali, shows no sign of abating, reaching critical levels .

Burkina Faso, a nation that once prided itself on ... The militiamen have carried out executions, forced disappearances or looting every six days on average, the data shows. Arming civilians ...

Burkina Faso's neighbours Mali and Niger have also been swept up in the jihadist and inter-community bloodshed, which killed 4,000 people across the three countries last year, according to the UN.

Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty after the West African country abolished it in 2018, a government source told AFP on Saturday. The latest execution in Burkina ...