Skip to content
Tuesday, 10 November 2026English edition
The Geopolitician

Country risk, from the local press

Burkina Faso · In the world’s press

Burkina Faso in the world’s press

Which countries’ presses mention Burkina Faso, how much against their habit, and what they said. Foreign presses only; the country’s own press is shown apart.

Mentions from foreign presses, 90 days

134 mentions yesterday · 12% above its 30-day mean · 0.3% of the world’s foreign attention

Who is watching

The presses that mentioned Burkina Faso most over the last 7 days: mentions, the share of that press’s foreign attention, and the change against its previous 30 days.

  1. Mali’s press 306 mentions · 29% of its foreign attention · ×3.8 vs its habit
  2. Guinea’s press 125 mentions · 17% of its foreign attention · ×67.0 vs its habit
  3. Benin’s press 116 mentions · 4% of its foreign attention · ×0.5 vs its habit
  4. Algeria’s press 71 mentions · 3% of its foreign attention · ×1.0 vs its habit
  5. Congo-Brazzaville’s press 69 mentions · 1% of its foreign attention · ×1.5 vs its habit
  6. Togo’s press 55 mentions · 2% of its foreign attention · ×0.5 vs its habit
  7. Mauritania’s press 42 mentions · 6% of its foreign attention · ×1.1 vs its habit
  8. Russia’s press 32 mentions · 0.2% of its foreign attention · ×1.6 vs its habit
  9. Cameroon’s press 30 mentions · 3% of its foreign attention · ×1.2 vs its habit
  10. Myanmar (Burma)’s press 27 mentions · 3% of its foreign attention · ×3.2 vs its habit
  11. Senegal’s press 27 mentions · 1% of its foreign attention · ×1.3 vs its habit
  12. France’s press 20 mentions · 0.3% of its foreign attention · ×2.5 vs its habit

Burkina Faso’s own press: 2,456 mentions in 7 days.

Stories that reached the Burkina Faso press

The travelling stories this press carried, newest first, with the day it first did.

  1. Niger and Senegal strengthen cooperation 4 presses · 8 days · on 28 Oct 2026
  2. Burkinabè miners return from Guinea 4 presses · 5 days · on 4 Nov 2026
  3. Russia-Africa summit discussions 12 presses · 11 days · on 26 Oct 2026
  4. Binance hack worth $6.3 billion 11 presses · 3 days · on 3 Nov 2026
  5. Ebola outbreak in Congo surpasses 10,000 cases 12 presses · 12 days · on 26 Oct 2026
  6. ECOWAS and AES cooperation discussions 3 presses · 9 days · on 16 Oct 2026

What they said

The latest foreign headlines naming Burkina Faso, as the outlets wrote them; the translation is ours when shown.

Collection outage, left blank: 17 Sep 2026, 18 Sep 2026, 28 Sep 2026, 29 Sep 2026, 30 Sep 2026, 1 Oct 2026, 2 Oct 2026, 3 Oct 2026.

Counted at fetch time from the titles and descriptions of every article read, by the outlet’s country. Shares, not raw counts, when presses are compared: a press that publishes more mentions everyone more. Coverage of the local press, not public opinion and not truth. Data since 17 September 2026. Method →

The observatory → · All Burkina Faso briefings →