Amid reports of gunfire and civilians scampering to safety in the economic capital, Cotonou, Beninese and others across the ...

ECOWAS also instructed its commission to urgently "operationalise the long-planned Regional Counterterrorism Brigade." ...

Despite its lack of substantive resources, Russia is winning the battle for influence in the information space across huge ...

Military coupists like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré and Mali’s Assimi Goïta have not only attracted domestic support but ...

By Amos SAFOSecurity analysts of the Alliance of Sahelian States (AES), comprising, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have cited Nigeria and the Ivory Coast as the biggest threats to their fight for ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday threatened “targeted sanctions” on anyone obstructing Guinea ...

West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday threatened "targeted sanctions" on anyone obstructing Guinea-Bissau's return to ...

Presidents and their deputies from across west Africa met Sunday in Nigeria for a regional meeting whose agenda was dominated by two recent coup attempts.

President Bola Tinubu is currently attending the 68th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja. Represented by his Vice, ...

Six days after a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft made a precautionary landing in Burkina Faso, the 11 military personnel on ...

The Benin events mark the third coup attempt and first failed coup this year in the Sahel region. There have been 17 coup ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has confirmed that Nigerian soldiers aboard the C-130 aircraft that made ...