President Ibrahim Traoré made the announcement , saying the wigs, which come from British and French traditions, no longer ...

Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, is the heartland of traditional textile weaving. Here, the streets are dotted ...

Four Moroccan truck drivers went missing on Saturday as they crossed the restive border area between Burkina Faso and Niger, ...

A major journalist in Niger was in custody Saturday, an association said, a day after the private TV channel he runs was suspended following a report critical of the military-led regime.

The “imazighen”, an indigenous population of North Africa, celebrate between2 and 14 the Berber New Year, a marked ancestral ...

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by ...

West African leaders considered military intervention to stop Niger from falling under the sway of a junta following a coup.

Fact-checking initiatives in Francophone Africa — where many Indigenous languages also are spoken — typically publish their ...

Vista Group, which bought Societe Generale SA and BNP Paribas SA’s African units, is expanding to France as the Burkina ...

Burkina Faso has now joined countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia in taking steps to ban the usage of wigs.

Mali's military government is holding gold seized from Barrick Gold's Loulo-Gounkoto mine site at state-owned Banque Malienne ...

Catholic bishops in Benin extended their condolences to the families of at least 28 soldiers who were killed by terrorists on ...