Nigeria has beaten Burkina Faso 1-0 at the National Stadium to lift the Africa Cup of Nations trophy.
A swell of spectators have converged on the National Stadium ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations closing ceremony in Johannesburg.
Paul Put has achieved a football miracle with Burkina Faso no matter what happens when the pre-tournament no-hopers tackle Nigeria at the Afcon final.
Superstars have fizzled. Nobodies have sizzled. Here is the Mail & Guardian’s team of the tournament.
A strong Nigeria team and surprising Burkina Faso outfit have qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations final, both looking to lift the trophy.
Burkina Faso booked their place in the Africa Cup of Nations final for the first time in their history.
Burkina Faso reached the semifinals of the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time since 1998 after a 1-0 win over fellow outsiders Togo on Sunday.
Super sub Alain Traore bagged the equaliser deep in injury time to earn Burkina Faso a 1-1 draw against 10-man Nigeria.
Aid agencies say they are facing a multimillion-dollar funding shortage to deal with a food crisis in the Sahel in northern Africa.
Sudan have celebrated their biggest football achievement in over 40 years when they nabbed a spot in the Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals.
Burkina Faso must stop conceding soft goals if they are to have any hope of defeating Côte d’Ivoire and getting their Afcon campaign back on track.
Côte d’Ivoire has begun its quest for a second Afcon title with a 1-0 victory over Sudan, while over in Group B, Angola has beaten Burkina Faso 2-1.
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/ 10 January 2012
Burkina Faso will be playing in the Africa Cup of Nations after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected Namibia’s appeal against Herve Zengue.
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/ 29 December 2011
The first African football drama of 2012 will unfold as Namibia continues a battle to get Burkina Faso kicked out of the upcoming Cup of Nations.
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/ 30 October 2011
The Africa Cup of Nations’ main contenders Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana avoided each other and the likes of Senegal, Morocco and Tunisia in a kind draw.
The struggle for 2012 Africa Cup of Nations places reaches a climax this weekend with 21 countries chasing 10 tickets to Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Gaddafi is on the run. But nobody seems to know where he is, after Niger denied he was in the country, and Burkina Faso said he was not welcome there.
Midfielder Kagisho Dikgacoi will miss South Africa’s friendly against Burkina Faso in Johannesburg on Wednesday night because he is stuck in England.
The ministry of education in Burkina Faso agreed to meet some of the demands of striking teachers after thousands of pupils demonstrated.
Soldiers from Burkina Faso’s second largest military base took to the streets of the country’s economic capital on Tuesday night.
Four students were injured during a protest on Friday, three by bullets, as Burkina Faso police opened fire to disperse the youths.
A wave of popular anger spread in Burkina Faso on Thursday as police followed the army in staging a mutiny.
President Blaise Compaore appointed a former ambassador to France as the new prime minister, hoping to restore stability after violent protests.
A mutiny in Burkina Faso spread on Monday as police joined soldiers on a rampage in a northern town, and students staged violent protests in the west.
Burkina Faso’s president, facing a military mutiny, strove to reassert his authority on Friday after mass protests and a night when soldiers ran riot.
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/ 22 November 2010
Burkina Faso voted on Sunday in a presidential poll, which appeared to generate little enthusiasm and was expected to keep Blaise Compaore in power.
On his regular Book Safari, David L Smith looks at <em>The Democratic King</em>, a novel by a policeman from Burkina Faso about his ideal Africa.
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/ 20 January 2010
Ghana have escaped blushes by squeezing into the quarterfinals of the African Cup of Nations with a 1-0 win over Burkina Faso on Tuesday.
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/ 18 January 2010
Ghana suffered a blow to their hopes of qualifying for the Afcon quarterfinals when Michael Essien was ruled out of the game against Burkina Faso.
A film set in Ethiopia about a bloodthirsty regime under has won best movie award at Africa’s top film festival.
Plans to dig West Africa’s first zinc mine in impoverished Burkina Faso have been scrapped due to funding problems linked to depressed zinc prices.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in several towns in Burkina Faso, one of the world’s poorest countries, on Wednesday to protest the rising cost of living as part of a three-day general strike. In the capital, Ouagadougou, demonstrators started marching from the headquarters of the main unions and the city centre.