The United Nations rights chief today called on the Burkina Faso government to halt all repression of civic space and to overturn its plan to prohibit all political parties. The junta running the West African nation said last week it planned to dissolve all political parties, whose activities have been suspended since the military rulers [&hel...
•Burkina Faso leader, Ibrahim Traore Burkina Faso’s junta today declared the top resident UN official “persona non grata” for a United Nations report which found that armed groups were recruiting children to fight in the country’s jihadist conflict. Since seizing power in a coup, the Burkinabe junta has placed international organisations and h...

