Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers, four security sources and a West African diplomat said on Monday, following heavy gunfire around his ...

Burkina Faso's president Roch Kabore has been reportedly detained by mutinying soldiers following reports of heavy gunfire at his residence on Sunday night. David Doyle has more.

President Roch Kaboré's whereabouts are unclear amid conflicting reports on whether he has been detained by dissident forces. Gunfire was heard overnight near the presidential palace and at ...

His whereabouts are unclear, but the officer said that all those detained were in a secure location. The coup comes a day after troops seized barracks, and gunshots were heard in the capital ...

The country's defense minister said that President Roch Marc Christian Kabore hadn't been detained. The gunfire comes a day after protesters demanded his resignation at a demonstration in Ouagadougou.

“The Secretary-General continues to call for calm, the release of President Kaboré and other officials that have been detained as well as for a return to constitutional order in Burkina Faso,” he said ...

Can't do anything' Adding to the unease, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has refused to address the surge in attacks, declining to appear alongside Le Drian for a press briefing after their ...

We underscore ECOWAS’s call for the release of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and other members of the government who are unjustly detained and for the return to constitutional order in Burkina ...

On April 6, 2022, a military tribunal in Burkina Faso found 11 men, including the former president, Blaise Compaoré, guilty of “attacks on state security, complicity in murder and concealment of a ...