The President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, the regional mediator in the Mali crisis, is calling for a "dialogue framework" for talks with Mali's rebels.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) has threatened to execute six French hostages if France intervenes militarily in northern Mali in a message published on a Mauritanian website.
Leaders of the West African bloc, Ecowas, are holding a summit on Mali in Burkina Faso that will seek to put together a national unity government tasked with tackling the crisis in the ...
West African mediator President Blaise Compaoré has opened talks with Malian politicians and the military junta that briefly seized power last month to resolve the country's crisis.
A former aide to ex French president Jacques Chirac and his one-time prime minister Dominque de Villepin claims African leaders handed over briefcases full of cash to the two politicians to ...
Burkina Faso leader Blaise Compaoré's presidential guard on Friday went on the offensive against mutinous troops in the economic capital in the south-west, Bobo Dioulasso, witnesses ...
Unrest continued in Burkina Faso on Saturday for the third straight day as soldiers fired into the air and pillaged shops and market stalls while angry vendors set fire to the ruling party ...
