This week, under the leadership of the Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development, civil society groups and some development partners convened a conference attended by leading politicians, ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, secured a rare interview ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

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

Embakasi East MP Babu Owino kept the country guessing his next political moves after he announced that he is presently visiting Burkina Faso under the invite of the country’s government.

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried ...

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday announced the formal exit of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso ...

Thousands of people rallied in junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali on Tuesday to back their withdrawal from the Economic ...

Mignot stressed that the EU was not in support of ECOWAS splitting, saying that regionalism is the path to prosperity and stability. The envoy, who spoke yesterday at a media chat in Abuja, described ...

The junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region, Niger's defense minister said Wednesday, to face ...

President Ibrahim Traoré made the announcement , saying the wigs, which come from British and French traditions, no longer ...