UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemns a deadly attack on a commercial convoy in Burkina Faso, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday

The United States has designated Niger's national Ousmane Illiassou Djibo for his leading role in the Islamic State (banned in Russia) terrorist group operating in the Greater Sahara, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in a statement on Monday

A prominent human rights group on Wednesday called for the Burkina Faso authorities to investigate allegations of mass extrajudicial killings of at least 180 men whose bodies were discovered in the northern town of Djibo this past spring

Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in recent weeks due to fighting across northern Burkina Faso, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced on Friday