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Burkina Faso has expelled two French journalists working for newspapers Le Monde and Liberation, the two newspapers said on Sunday, accusing the authorities of seeking to stifle freedom of speech with an escalating crackdown on foreign media. Liberation said its correspondent Agnès Faivre and Le Monde’s Sophie Douce arrived in …

Gunfire was heard in Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday a day after President Paul-Henri Damiba was declared ousted in the second coup the West African country has seen this year. Amid reports of rifts within the army, there was no update from self-declared leader Captain Ibrahim Traore, who was installed …

Protesters burned tyres and pillaged a government building in Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday after police fired tear gas to disperse a march against the state’s failure to stop a wave of violence by Islamist militants. Activist groups called for renewed protests in response to a recent surge of attacks …