Tuggar spoke on Thursday at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja when TheCable asked him about the status of the soldiers in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Burkina Faso briefly detained eleven Nigerian military officers after a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft made an emergency ...

The Associated Press has spoken to over 30 refugees from Mali who say they witnessed beheadings, rapes and other abuses ...

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

West Africa stands at a critical moment—fragile, fast-moving, and unforgiving. Despite years of regional diplomacy, the Economic Community of West ...

When Benin's government over the weekend fought back a coup attempt, they had unlikely help: troops and air strikes from ...

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