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Nearly a year after AES states introduced shared biometric ID card, Burkina Faso rolls out new biometric database to identify citizens

After pushing France out over anti-Western sentiments and moving closer to Russia, Burkina Faso partners with another Western state as it marks 36 years of reunification

Russian security firms battle over Burkina Faso gold mine owned by billionaire Alexey Mordashov’s family amid $1 billion sale talks with another Russian miner

Africa welcomes its newest gold refinery as another nation joins Burkina Faso, Ethiopia in refining gold at home

After KFC switches to Coke, PepsiCo secures 11-year Taco Bell deal as Traoré cracks down on a banned German drink in Burkina Faso

2 days after Burkina Faso voted to reinstate the death penalty, Mali broadens powers to revoke citizenship as Sahel leaders tighten state control

Burkina Faso rewrites 33-year-old law to protect strategic state enterprises from privatisation

Nearly 21 months after leaving ECOWAS, breakaway Sahel states agree to negotiate new deal with West African bloc

France expels intelligence officers from two African countries as Sahel security ties deteriorate

Ibrahim Traoré’s two books generate CFA 125 million for Burkina Faso’s patriotic fund, which has raised over CFA 550 billion for security

Russia-backed Traoré hits out at global war court, saying it serves a Western agenda as Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger cut ties with International Criminal Court

Russia-backed Burkina Faso and UAE back Morocco’s plan for disputed territory as Algeria throws its weight behind heavily armed Polisario Front

Burkina Faso opens $19 million gold refinery as Traoré pushes to keep mining wealth at home

Ibrahim Traoré forces NGOs to invest 80% of their budgets in Burkina Faso as Russia-backed military government tightens control of foreign aid

A Russia-aligned West African country backs Morocco, a major US non-NATO ally, in territorial dispute long opposed by Algeria

Traore's Russian-backed Burkina Faso rejects Western armored vehicles and unveils locally made war equipment

Burkina Faso’s leader, Traoré, shows off a new weapon supplied by the world’s 3rd most powerful military nation

Ghana cuts fuel exports to Burkina Faso and Mali as domestic demand rises

Ghana’s BOSTenergies reduces fuel exports to Burkina Faso and Mali amid depot revamp

Niger replaces military chief after Russian kamikaze drones help crush 24-hour mutiny

China issues over 8,000 visas to Burkina Faso citizens in major push for trade and industrial transfer