ABUJA, Nigeria — At least 15 Catholic worshippers were killed in a Burkina Faso village on Sunday when gunmen attacked a community as they gathered for prayers in the country’s conflict-hit northern region, church officials said. The violence in the village of Essakane was a “terrorist attack” that left 12 of the Catholic faithful dead … Read more
ABUJA, Nigeria — Monthslong tension between three coup-hit countries in West Africa and the regional bloc known as ECOWAS boiled over when the nations announced their immediate withdrawal from the bloc and accused it of a lack of support and “inhumane” coup-related sanctions. In their joint statement on Sunday, the juntas of Niger, Mali and … Read more
DAKAR, Senegal — Three nations in Africa’s Sahel region announced Sunday that they were leaving the area’s most important political and economic bloc, deepening a rift between those countries’ military juntas and other states in West Africa. Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso issued a joint statement accusing the Economic Community of West African States, or … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave The day that made Aïcha Bonou N’Donkie into an international viral sensation started as usual, with the 18 year-old collecting firewood, cooking for her family and selling peanuts she’d grown at the market in her village in western Burkina Faso. When she went to an informal concert … Read more
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ABUJA, Nigeria — At least 40 civilians were killed last weekend by al-Qaida-linked rebels trying to take control of a besieged town in Burkina Faso’s hard-hit northern region, the United Nations’ rights office said, calling the attack a war crime. In one of the largest clashes in recent years in the West African nation under … Read more
In a nation that traces its roots to the child of an equestrian, young men on horseback continue a racing tradition. October 2, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. EDT Madi Dermé, 57, performs with his horse in a street in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in July. (Adrien Bitibaly for The Washington Post) Comment on this storyComment OUAGADOUGOU, … Read more