This group began as a localised insurgency in the northern provinces of Burkina Faso, under the leadership of Malam Ibrahim Dicko. Dicko was a Peul commander linked to Ansar al-Din who was arrested by ...

Burkina Faso as a whole has been hit by a decade-long insurgency that has displaced nearly two million people. The military took power last January, promising an end to attacks. A different group ...

Long a stable democracy, Ghana has so far been spared the violence that has seen the insurgency spread, causing havoc in Burkina Faso and its West African neighbours. The insurgents who kidnapped ...