Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

Cte dIvoire announced that French troops would be withdrawing from the country and the military base of Port-Bout would be ...

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle ...

Indigenisation efforts led by leaders more concerned with self-preservation than national progress often spell disaster.

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are officially leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday after 50 years, reported German news agency dpa. The ...

Since 2022, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and now Côte d’Ivoire, have terminated defence agreements with France. This may present an opportunity for a long overdue assertion of sove ...