By Michelle Gavin
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![President Paul Biya attends the swearing-in for his eighth term at the Cameroon National Assembly Building in Yaounde, Cameroon on November 6, 2025.]()
![<p>A man sells newspapers in a street, following an attack on the international airport in Niamey, Niger, on January 30, 2026.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Supporters of Burkina Faso’s junta hold Burkinabè and Russian flags as they gather to protest against the arrival of an ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) delegation in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on October 4, 2022.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>A person holds a sign with a picture of Captain Ibrahim Traoré while attending a rally by supporters of Burkina Faso’s junta to mark the one-year anniversary of the coup that brought Traoré to power in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on September 29, 2023.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Burkina Faso’s military leader Ibrahim Traoré attends John Dramani Mahama’s swearing-in ceremony for his second term as Ghana’s president, in Accra, Ghana, on January 7, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Niger’s junta leader Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani reacts as Mali’s Assimi Goïta and Burkina Faso’s Capt. Ibrahim Traoré stand during the first ordinary summit of heads of state and governments of the AES on July 6, 2024 in Niamey, Niger.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>A man uses his mobile phone beside army soldiers after they deposed President Kabore in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on January 24, 2022. </p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Burkina Faso’s self-declared new leader Ibrahim Traore arrives at the national television standing in an armored vehicle in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on October 2, 2022.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>During a demonstration of supporters of Burkina Faso’s self-declared new leader Ibrahim Traore, one protester holds a Russian flag, another a sign displaying “let’s go to the French embassy,” in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on October 1, 2022. </p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Supporters of Burkina Faso’s self-declared new leader Ibrahim Traore demonstrate holding a Burkina Faso and Russian flags in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on October 2, 2022.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>People attend the opening of the trial against alleged perpetrators of the assassination of former President Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Captain Sidsore Kader Ouedraogo, spokesman for the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration, announces that the army has taken control of the country in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on January 24, 2022.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Soldiers from Burkina Faso patrol on the road of Gorgadji in the Sahel region in Burkina Faso on March 3, 2019.</p>]()
By John Campbell![<p>A pro-democracy protester holds up a Burkina Faso flag at Place de la Nation in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, November 2, 2014</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Silhouetted palm trees and woman carrying merchandise on her head on a beach at sunset, Gulf of Guinea, Lome, Togo, West Africa, January 31, 2013.</p>]()
By Guest Blogger for John Campbell![<p>Soldiers take part in the funeral ceremony of the seven members of the security forces killed three days ago after their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in eastern Burkina Faso, on August 31, 2018, in Ouagadougou.</p>]()
By John Campbell![<p>French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with the special forces soldiers during a national tribute for two soldiers who were killed in a night-time rescue in Burkina Faso of four foreign hostages in Paris, France, on May 14, 2019. </p>]()
By John Campbell![<p>Soldiers from Burkina Faso take part in a training with Austrian army instructors at the Kamboinse – General Bila Zagre military camp near Ouagadougo, Burkina Faso, on April 13, 2018.</p>]()
By John Campbell
