Burkina Faso

Ex-Leader of Burkina Faso Convicted in Killing of Predecessor

For decades, Blaise Compaoré, the president of Burkina Faso, preferred to avoid the subject of Thomas Sankara, his predecessor and one-time friend who was brutally killed in 1987 by soldiers who gunned him down outside his office. On Wednesday, a military tribunal confirmed longstanding, widespread suspicions that Mr. Compaoré, now in living in exile, was […]

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Amid Coups and Covid, Africa Focuses on What’s Most Important: Soccer

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — She had watched some of the matches secretly, volume turned down low so that nobody would report her. She had seen the threats, and knew that she could be kidnapped or killed for watching the African soccer tournament that her country, Cameroon, was hosting. But she was fed up with containing her […]

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Africa Cup of Nations: Soccer Tournament Offers Joy Amid Coups and Covid

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Burkina Faso President Ousted in Military Coup

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The military seized power in Burkina Faso on Monday, ousting the country’s democratically elected president after mutinous soldiers stormed his home, in the latest of a series of military coups in African countries struggling to beat back a rising tide of Islamist violence. President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, 64, had been […]

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Gunfire Rattles Burkina Faso’s Capital as Soldiers Revolt

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Gunfire erupted inside several military bases across this conflict-hit West African country early Sunday as part of an apparent mutiny led by soldiers demanding sweeping changes to the government’s faltering campaign against Islamist militants. The firing started just before dawn at the bases in the capital, Ouagadougou, and in at least […]

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