The withdrawal of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, takes effect on ...

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as of9 Alliance of Sahel States (AES) Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso leave ...

Suspected terrorists affiliated with Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, JNIM, have launched a coordinated and deadly assault ...

This will happen on Wednesday, all three countries having ignored ECOWAS's call to extend the period by six months to try to ...

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online claiming Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore has officially banned ...

Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, is the heartland of traditional textile weaving. Here, the streets are dotted ...

"The rise of junta rule in the Sahel represents a complex interplay between decolonization and destabilization." ...

Ibrahim Traore hits back at French president saying that African leaders had ‘forgotten to say thank you" to Paris for ...

The journalists were on an anti-poaching mission in Burkina Faso. War reporter David Beriáin and cameraman Roberto Fraile were ambushed when the government convoy they were accompanying was ...

Niger’s defense minister says 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 against rising ...

The three countries will put their own common passport into circulation on Wednesday and have announced a unified army of 5,000 men.

Interview: Zambian Sister Vickness Muleya, member of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, leads ...