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Burkina Faso coup: the MPSR refocuses its goals

YoopyaOctober 1, 2022April 5, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 1, 2022April 5, 20230513

Friday, September 30, 2022 would have been one of the longest days since the year began. Indeed, since detonations and gunshots in Ouaga 2000 around...

Africa World

Burkina Faso junta faced with protests over exiled ex-leader

YoopyaJuly 10, 2022April 6, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 10, 2022April 6, 20230246

Protesters in Burkina Faso demonstrated Friday against the return of former President Blaise Compaore, as the ruling junta faltered in its efforts to hold a...

Africa News World

Burkina Faso’s ousted ex-president Compaore returns for summit

YoopyaJuly 8, 2022April 6, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 8, 2022April 6, 20230399

Burkina Faso’s ex-president Blaise Compaore returned from exile on Thursday, almost eight years after he was toppled in an uprising, to take part in a...

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West African leaders lift economic and financial sanctions on Mali

YoopyaJuly 4, 2022April 6, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 4, 2022April 6, 20230393

Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali, after its military rulers proposed...

Africa Education News

Diébédo Francis Kéré talk-show at TED about how to build with clay … and community (Video)

YoopyaMarch 24, 2022June 30, 2023

by YoopyaMarch 24, 2022June 30, 20230272

Diébédo Francis Kéré knew exactly what he wanted to do when he got his degree in architecture… He wanted to go home to Gando in...

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When conditions are right, Burkina Faso will return to constitutional order, the military leader says

YoopyaJanuary 27, 2022June 30, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 27, 2022June 30, 20230402

Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba, Burkina Faso’s new military leader, said his country will return to constitutional order once the conditions are right. On Monday, Dambiba...

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Key defendant in Burkina’s Sankara trial pleads not guilty

YoopyaNovember 9, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaNovember 9, 2021June 13, 20230350

General Gilbert Diendere, a key defendant in a trial over the 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, pleaded not guilty at the...

Africa Entertainment News

Africa’s largest film festival kicks off in Burkina Faso

YoopyaOctober 16, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 16, 2021June 13, 20230372

Africa’s largest film festival kicks off Saturday in Burkina Faso amid both the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing jihadi insurgency in the West African nation...

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Burkina Faso starts trial on killing of ex-leader Sankara

YoopyaOctober 12, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 12, 2021June 13, 20230246

A military court in Burkina Faso on Monday started the trial of 14 people including former President Blaise Compaore for the killing of influential leftist...

Africa News World

After 34 years, Sankara murder trial begins in Burkina Faso

YoopyaOctober 12, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 12, 2021June 13, 20230289

The trial of 14 people accused of plotting the assassination of Burkina Faso’s former president Thomas Sankara started on Monday, 34 years after he was...