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Weeks after Burkina Faso’s government gave notice to France to withdraw its troops from the country, Ouagadougou has “denounced” a military assistance agreement signed with France in 1961. It gives 1 month for "departure of all French military personnel serving in Burkinabe administrations"

Burkina Faso has repudiated the 1961 military assistance pact with Paris, and is reportedly looking for Russia for counter-terrorism aid Read Full Article at RT.com

At the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, or FESPACO, African cinema has freed itself from Western models, with women leading the way.

Burkina Faso has scrapped a 1961 agreement on military assistance with France, a move that comes only weeks after it told the French ambassador and troops supporting its anti-jihadist campaign to quit…

Burkina scraps 1961 military aid pact with France

Burkina Faso's most famous revolutionary Thomas Sankara has been reburied in the capital by the military junta - despite his widow and children boycotting the

Sankara's widow Mariam and his two children, who opposed choice of burial location, were absent.

The bodies of former Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara and his twelve companions, assassinated on October 15, 1987 during a coup, were Thursday reburied at the site of their murder in Ouagadougou

Former leader’s remains, and those of the 12 people who were killed with him, reburied at assassination site.

Burkina Faso's communications minister said the ceremony – which former leader Thomas Sankara's family have said they will not attend – will happen 'on the site of the Thomas Sankara memorial', erected at the location where he was assassinated.