Sources: Reuters Xinhua
Seven Ghanaian traders are killed when Islamist insurgents attack Titao, Loroum Province, Burkina Faso, with the assailants burning the bodies and a vehicle. 2026-02-14
Five people are killed and two other passengers are injured after a private aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Diapaga Airport in Diapaga Department, Burkina Faso. 2024-03-6
At least 44 people are killed by jihadists in two villages in Séno Province, Sahel Region, Burkina Faso. 2023-04-6
Jihadists kidnap dozens of women in Arbinda, Sahel Region, Burkina Faso, according to local officials. 2023-01-15
Four civilians are killed during a battle between French troops and Ansar ul Islam in Burkina Faso. Ten militants are killed in the clash, which involved support from an attack helicopter. 2022-02-10
The death toll from the attack at a military post in Inata, Soum Province, Burkina Faso, three days ago, increases to 53, including 49 gendarmes and four civilians. 2021-11-17
The trial for the 1987 assassination of former leader of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara, known as the "African Che Guevara", begins in Ouagadougou against 14 people, including former president Blaise Compaoré, who will be tried "in absentia". 2021-10-11
A military court in Burkina Faso indicts ("in absentia") ex-President Blaise Compaoré, who is charged with the 1987 murder of his immediate predecessor Thomas Sankara. Compaoré ruled the nation for 27 years following Sankara's assassination before resigning in the face of protests in 2014 and fleeing into exile in Ivory Coast. The court indicts thirteen other Burkinabé ex-officials accused of various crimes including murder. 2021-04-13
Burkina Faso's National Assembly votes to abolish the death penalty. 2018-06-1
The head of Guinea's junta Moussa Dadis Camara and interim leader General Sékouba Konaté hold emergency talks with Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré. 2010-01-14