A makeshift village in the Mauritanian desert shelters thousands of refugees who have fled Mali in recent weeks as fighting ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic have remained hostile to Nigeria because of its opposition to the overthrow of democracy in the three French-speaking West African countries. Had last Sunday’s ...

The military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched a regional investment bank capitalised at 500 ...

The military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched a regional investment bank with an initial capital ...

The region of Western Africa comprises countries including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte D’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, ...

By the early 2000s, West Africa appeared to be turning a corner. Multi-party elections had replaced decades of ...

The October kidnapping by suspected jihadists of an American pilot working for an evangelical Christian missionary agency in ...

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president ...

Beneath the sprawling branches of an ancient tree in his abode in the Wurno area of Sokoto, Mallam Aliyu Hassan drifts into ...

(Abuja, FCT, Nigeria) From Kogi’s riverbank villages through Benue-Plateau rivers to Kaduna and Kebbi’s wheat fields, Fulani Ethnic Militia attacks are shifting, deadlier, and increasingly coordinated ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- A Nigerian Air Force plane made an emergency landing in Burkina Faso late Monday due to an in-flight ...

Military juntas in three West African states warned they would shoot down any aircraft that violated their airspace, after a ...