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 ...

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

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

Islamist JNIM fighters have surrounded Mali's capital Bamako, blocking fuel supplies as the West African nation faces ...

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

President John Dramani Mahama has called for renewed diplomatic engagement between the Economic Community of West African ...

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

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

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

President Bola Tinubu is attending the 68th Ordinary Session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and ...

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

Nigeria's Air Force has reacted to threatening statements by neighbouring Mali after a Nigerian military aircraft headed to ...