The Latest Breaking News from Burkina Faso

The government denies the army seized control of the country after exchanges of gunfire at multiple army barracks.

Burkina Faso and Gabon will meet in the Africa Cup of Nations round 16 on Sunday afternoon.

Demonstrations planned for Saturday prohibited for ‘security reasons’; last protest in November turned violent.

Burkina Faso and Gabon will get the Africa Cup of Nations round of 16 underway on Sunday night.

Constitutional government in Burkina Faso can be said to have begun with the proclamation of independence on 5 August 1960. This was soon followed by the constitutional referendum of 27 November 1960 which paved the way for the adoption of the new constitution.

Four French soldiers from the Operation Barkhane taskforce were injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) hit their vehicle in Burkina Faso, reported Le Monde, Le Figaro and Agence France Presse.

Within a few weeks of the start of a new year and West Africa had its first attempted coup d’état. On January 12 the Burkinabè government announced that it foiled a plot from within the armed forces to destabilise the state.

Cameroon finished top of Group A while Burkina Faso clinched a place in the last 16 with a 1-1 draw against Ethiopia

More than three decades after the murder of Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, getting to the bottom of who gave the orders for his assassination has been an elusive affair, despite the inception of a long-awaited judicial process that got underway in October.