Burkina Faso News

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund today completed the fifth review of Burkina Faso's performance under an economic program supported by a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility arrangement.

Public Information Notices form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies.

By Mathieu Bonkoungou Ouagadougou - Guinea, whose military leader was the target of a botched assassination attempt last week, needs a West African protection force urgently, an official of a regional bloc said on Sunday.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso West Africa's regional economic body is calling for troops to be sent to Guinea to prevent violence after an assassination attempt against the military leader.

Guinea's interim junta leader, General Skouba Kounat, has reiterated the regime's allegiance to his wounded and hospitalised military boss, Capt Moussa Dadis Camara.

Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, sent a message of greetings to Blaise Compaore, president of Burkina Faso, on Wednesday on the occasion of its 51st national day.

Guinea's military government suspended crisis talks with opposition groups while its leader recovers from surgery for gunshot wounds in Morocco.

The Security Council today called for the holding of credible presidential elections in Cote d'Ivoire at the earliest date possible, after the much-delayed polls were recently postponed again.

Guinea's situation is complicated with military junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara shot and wounded on Thursday by his aide de camp, Aboubakar Toumba Diakite.

Guinea vice-president takes helm Guinea's vice-president has returned from business abroad to take charge of the country after an attempted assassination on the president.

The No. 2 of Guinea's military junta returned to the country overnight, helping fill a dangerous power vacuum after the president was shot by his top aide and evacuated for emergency treatment, a government spokesman said Saturday.

Guinea tightened security in the capital Conakry on Friday, residents said, after junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara was wounded in an attack carried out by his own soldiers.

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital, was hit by its heaviest rainfall in 90 years.

Ouagadougou - It will be better for Ivory Coast to hold its already overdue elections late rather than rushing to hold a vote that leads to a resumption of violence, President Laurent Gbagbo said on Tuesday.

Guinea's military leader Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara, center, salutes as he stands next to Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, left, during welcoming ceremonies at the airport in Conakry, Guinea The spokesman for Guinea's military junta said Captain Moussa Dadis Camara supports the United Nations' ongoing investigation into the recent massacre of ...

'The two sides have started talks, but they are ready to play the ethnic card if negotiations fail,' say Fides sources from the Church in Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guinea where tensions remain high between the military junta led by Moussa Camara Dadis and the opposition, grouped under the name of "Live Forces". This week, talks began ...

Captain Moussa Dadis Camara At mediation talks in neighboring Burkina Faso, Guinea's ruling military says there is no way their current leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, will relinquish his role in a transitional government.

Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore posing with Taiwan's Minister of Foreign Affairs James CF Huang in July 2007 during the laying of the first foundation stone of an hospital, in Ouagadougou China's push for political influence and access to the mineral wealth of the African continent has been resisted by some countries such as Burkina Faso ...

OUGADOUGU: French state organization Culturesfrance offered 500 copies of African films to Ouagadougou's film institute Friday, after the Burkina Faso capital was flooded by torrential rains.

A coalition of Guinean opposition leaders has presented President Blaise Compaor of Burkina Faso a set of proposals they believe will end the political crisis precipitated by a military takeover in Guinea last December, reports Sidwaya from Ouagadougou.