First Independent Mena Newspaper
Issouf Nikièma, former parliamentarian and member of a leading political party in Burkina Faso, kidnapped last Friday July 21 in capital Ouagadougou by an unknown armed man, has been set free, his party announced Tuesday July 25. Union pour le Progrès et le Changement (UPC), Nikiema’s party, announced Tuesday that the politician was released by […]
The leader of the People’s Movement for Progress (MPP) and former Premier under deposed Blaise Campaore, Roch Marc Christian Kabore, was announced winner of the first free and fair presidential elections after decades of dictatorship and a troubled transitional period. Provisional results published by the national electoral commission give 53.49 % of the votes to […]