Interpol, which coordinated the West African police operation dubbed “Sanu, " announced the move on Tuesday.

The West African police action, known as Operation Sanu, also marked a first for tackling illegal sand mining in Gambia.

Researchers at the University of Oxford are part of a team that has received a grant to develop vaccines against ...

Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, the leader of the military junta which seized control of Burkina Faso in a military coup d’etat earlier in the year, repeated a ...

Experts dubbed those countries a “coup belt.” Among others, that belt includes Burkina Faso. Russia and the juntas frame the anti-West glissade as a start of decolonization processes leading ...

"The rise of junta rule in the Sahel represents a complex interplay between decolonization and destabilization." ...

The operations, code-named Sanu, were carried out in Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea and Senegal from June to October last year. Investigators seized a large quantity of chemicals and equipment used ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The young West African students touched down in what was then the Soviet Union knowing only a handful of Russian words and little about their new home. Decades later ...

The United States announced on Friday that it would suspend a $160 million aid package to Burkina Faso after an internal review concluded that the military’s overthrow of President Roch ...