Burkina Faso

The 29th Pan-African Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou will be held between 22 February and 1 March 2025 and will have the Republic of Chad as guest of honour, announced Burkina Faso's Deputy Minister of Communications and Culture

The 'National Support Fund', established in January 2023 to support counter-terrorism efforts in the country, successfully raised 99 billion CFA francs (USD $162,2 million) in the past year

The 28th annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Yagma in the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou ended with an appeal to the Blessed Virgin Mary to intercede for peace in the West African nation

The country's first mining waste treatment plant was inaugurated in the country, one of Africa's leading gold-producing states

The military government of Burkina Faso, born out of a military coup in September 2022, has announced that it has foiled 'yet another destabilisation attempt' and launched a hunt against an alleged network of conspirators involving soldiers and civilians

The Consulate General of Burkina Faso in Niger will become a resident embassy, in line with the dynamic brought about by the new Alliance of Sahel States; an estimated 800.000 Burkinabe citizens reside in Niger

Burkina Faso is the first country to announce its final 27-man squad for AFCON 2023 after coach Hubert Velud named the players who will represent the country at the Total Energies Africa Cup of Nations

French will no longer be the official language of Burkina Faso: the decision is part of the military junta's project to revise the constitution

The country lost almost 47,5% of its forests between 1992 and 2014, according to a study conducted in 2022; another study conducted in 2018 showed that there were almost 15.600 square kilometres of degraded land in the country

The construction of the first refinery for gold, the country's main mineral resource, has started, with a production capacity of about 400 kilograms of gold per day, according to Ismael Siby, managing director of Marena Gold, co-manager of the refinery

Burkina Faso is among the countries that will receive a free grain shipment from Russia, with a ship to the country that has already sailed

The Vice-President of the Transitional Legislative Assembly of Burkina Faso praised HM King Mohammed VI's proposal to launch an international initiative to promote the access of Sahel States to the Atlantic Ocean

The Charles de Gaulle Avenue in Ouagadougou was renamed Thomas Sankara Avenue, officially elevating the ex-president to "Hero of the Nation" during the ceremony