OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s parliament has passed a law banning homosexuality with offenders facing two to five years in prison, the state broadcaster reported late Monday. The ...

Burkina Faso suspended a Gates Foundation-funded research program aimed at stopping the spread of malaria, one of the biggest killers in Africa, after the initiative drew criticism from anti-Western ...

Burkina Faso has passed a law making homosexual acts illegal, a move that reflects growing restrictions on LGBT rights across West Africa. As reported by BBC on Tuesday, the transitional, unelected ...

Sept 2 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's transitional parliament passed legislation outlawing conduct deemed to promote LGBTQ practices, introducing fines, prison sentences and sanctions for persons ...

An attack by unidentified armed men has killed four villagers and left another missing in northeastern Ivory Coast near Burkina Faso, the army said Tuesday, in the West African country’s first such ...

Burkina Faso’s director-general of the mining registry, Mamadou Sagnon, has moved to assure investors that the government’s request for a greater stake in West African Resources’ (WAF’s) new Kiaka ...

Burkina Faso and Mali did not send representatives to a continental military meeting hosted by Nigeria on Monday, as relations between the junta-led Sahel countries and their West African neighbours ...