Vol 65 No 15 | BURKINA FASO A hunter in aviation 18th July 2024 Burkina Faso’s national airline, Air Burkina, has struggled for more than a decade. But instead of saving West Africa’s oldest airline, the junta of Captain Ibrahim Tra...
Vol 65 No 14 | BURKINA FASOMALINIGER The juntas dig in as instability worsens 4th July 2024 Burkina’s leader Captain Traoré wants five more years in power but his army is losing badly against the jihadis The standing of Burkina Faso’s transitional leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who seized power in September, has hit a new low. But public opinion is the least of his woe...
Vol 65 No 10 | BURKINA FASOMALINIGER The juntas are running out of excuses 9th May 2024 Populist rhetoric and ethnic targeting by the military regimes are deepening the region's fault-lines The lean season in the Sahel this year is starting under the toughest economic and political conditions for generations. Mali and Burkina Faso have been baked by a record-breaking ...
Vol 65 No 5 | BURKINA FASO Junta press-gangs the press 26th February 2024 Rasmané Zinaba and Bassirou Badjo, youth leaders in the pro-democracy movement Balai Citoyen (Citizen Sweep), were abducted on 20 February and 21 February respectively by un...
DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 21 | BURKINA FASO Junta is latest to sign Russian nuclear pact 17th October 2023 Push into civilian energy markets in Africa continues as the shift away from fossil fuels opens up opportunities for Moscow to export its technology Burkina Faso is the latest African state to strike a deal on nuclear energy with Russia as the Kremlin continues its push towards civilian nuclear markets. Ministers confirmed that... READ FOR FREE
Vol 64 No 20 | BURKINA FASO Putsch or purge? 5th October 2023 On 27 September, the government informed the nation that a conspiracy to overthrow it had been foiled. The announcement came just days before the first anniversary of Captain Ibrah...
Vol 64 No 9 | BURKINA FASO Junta leader banks on autocracy 27th April 2023 The latest captain to run the country wants militias, censorship and army discipline to save the nation from the jihadists, and he doesn’t want help Military junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré is setting out his programme for victory in the war against militant jihadists, who have taken 40% of the country, killed thousa...
Vol 64 No 4 | BURKINA FASOMALI Restive Tuareg ramp up tension 16th February 2023 The Algiers peace accord is in danger of unravelling as both Mali and Burkina Faso struggle under new challenges from the jihadists While Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea talk of grand plans for diplomatic and economic cooperation, the already desperate Sahel security crisis has taken another turn for the worse.
Vol 64 No 3 | BURKINA FASOMALIECOWAS West Africa’s juntas look east 2nd February 2023 Ouagadougou is set to be the next military regime to invite Russian mercenaries after giving France a month for its troops to leave Captain Ibrahim Traoré's regime has brushed aside the concerns of fellow members of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) and gone even further than Mali an... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 2 | BURKINA FASOEUROPEAN UNIONSAHEL More European diplomatic dominoes fall as French ambassador is expelled from Ouagadogou 10th January 2023 The military juntas in the Sahel are sidelining Europe's efforts on security in favour of Moscow's forces When Burkina Faso's junta expelled France's ambassador, Luc Hallade, last week it reinforced the sense of failure of Europe's diplomatic and security policy in the region. READ FOR FREE