Burkina Faso’s military junta seizes the $607M Dioxin cotton company in the name of sovereignty. Critics warn the state may not know how to run it.
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Burkina Faso’s military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore, has publicly declared that democracy is simply not suited to his country, telling journalists that citizens should abandon expectations of representative governance while his regime focuses on what he calls “security and sovereignty.” The blunt remarks, made during a press conference in Ouagadougou in early April 2026, represent
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Burkina Faso has long been one of the world’s most overlooked crises. A country of roughly 23 million people, it has been caught in a grinding conflict involving jihadist insurgents, government forces, and community militias that has defied easy solution. Now a major new Human Rights Watch report has laid out in damning detail the
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More than 1,800 civilians have been killed in Burkina Faso since 2023 in attacks by both jihadist insurgents and government security forces, according to a comprehensive Human Rights Watch report documenting an escalating humanitarian catastrophe.
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When the sun rises over Burkina Faso’s remote villages, families wake to a terror that comes from two directions at once. A landmark report by Human Rights Watch has laid bare what analysts have long suspected: both government security forces and jihadist insurgent groups are responsible for systematic civilian killings that have claimed the lives
At least 100 civilians were killed in a single military operation in Burkina Faso, according to a detailed Human Rights Watch report. The incident occurred near Solenzo in the Boucle du Mouhoun region.
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