The Alliance of Sahel, a new group that consist of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced their immediate departure from the United Nations-backed International Criminal Court (ICC) calling it an “instrument of neo-colonialist repression”.
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Burkina Faso’s parliament has passed a law banning homosexuality with offenders facing two to five years in prison.
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Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré has banned the use of British and French colonial-style wigs by judges, marking a significant move to decolonise the country’s judicial system.
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The military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have jointly announced their immediate withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
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The Burkinabe government adopted on Wednesday a bill revising the Constitution and henceforth enshrining national languages as official languages in place of French which is relegated to the rank of “working language”.
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Burkina Faso on Saturday ordered the immediate indefinite suspension of Radio France Internationale (RFI) broadcasts, accusing it of putting out a “message of intimidation” attributed to a “terrorist leader”.
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Former Burkinabe president Blaise Compaoré, sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for the 1987 assassination of pan-Africanist icon Thomas Sankara, has apologised to the ex-leader’s family after years of denial.
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A military court in Ouagadougou which began the long-awaited trial of 14 people accused of plotting the assassination of Burkina Faso’s former president Thomas Sankara 34 years ago, was immediately adjourned.
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A military court in Burkina Faso has indicted former President Blaise Compaore in connection to the 1987 murder of his charismatic ex-president, Thomas Sankara.
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