Burkina Faso Bound

Burkina Faso's top court on Friday certified that President Roch Marc Christian Kabore had been elected for a second five-year term in a November poll. "The candidate Kabore, Roch Marc Christian, is elected president," Constitutional Court head Kassoum Kambou...

Burkina Faso will vote in a general election Sunday in the shadow of a growing jihadist insurgency, with President Roch Marc Christian Kabore expected to win re-election. But no votes in the presidential and parliament polls will be cast in one-fifth of the country's...

Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore launched his re-election campaign on Thursday, promising "peace" in a country undermined by jihadist attacks over the past five years. Speaking to a crowd of 25,000 at a stadium in the country's second-largest city,...

To the uninitiated, Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) group may be pursuing the same long-term goal of spreading Islamic law through territorial expansion and deadly violence. But actually, their ideology and methods differ so fundamentally that they are...