Burkina Faso

Mali accuses Ukraine of supporting terrorism

The author writes about Africa for Avante, the newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party. On August 4, Mali broke off…

August 14, 2024

Africa’s poorest countries defy imperialism

Three of the poorest countries in the world according to the United Nations — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso —…

February 6, 2024

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger join to defend sovereignty

The author, a former member of the Secretariat of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde…

October 5, 2023

Protesters in New York demand an end to U.S.-French domination in West Africa

Demonstrators gathered in front of the French Mission to the United Nations in New York City Aug. 22 at a…

August 23, 2023

En defensa del derecho a la soberanía e independencia de los pueblos de África 

Declaración por la Coordinación Estatal Contra la OTAN y las Bases, publicado el 11 de agosto de 2023, en el…

August 17, 2023

No U.S./French-backed invasion of Niger!

“When Africa becomes economically free and politically united, the monopolists will come face to face with their own working class…

August 6, 2023

Niger is the fourth country in the Sahel to experience an anti-Western coup

By Vijay Prashad, Kambale Musavuli This article first appeared Aug. 1 on peoplesdispatch.org. The coup in Niger follows coups in…

August 4, 2023

After 35 years, killers of African hero Thomas Sankara condemned

The trial of the Burkinabè soldiers who in 1987 killed Thomas Sankara, the president of Burkina Faso, and some of…

April 18, 2022

People of the Sahel oppose imperialism

After two weeks of struggle — burning barricades, smashed windows and mirrors, Molotov cocktails, masses of people on the road,…

December 10, 2021

Massive protests in Niger, Burkina Faso demand French military get out

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are former French colonies, where the struggle against France’s presence in the Sahel region of…

November 30, 2021