Insurgents are expanding from West Africa’s Sahel region toward Atlantic coastal nations such as Ivory Coast, creating new ...

He said the meeting would also delve into how to minimise the negative effects of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger’s withdrawal ...

Suspected jihadists have killed nine travellers, including a teacher, in an attack in southwestern Niger, near the border ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced plans to organise a summit on the future of the community. This is as a result of the withdrawal of three member states – ...

US philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has commended the Sahel nations of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger for ...

Education ministers from Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso seek solutions as conflict and displacement push education to the brink ...

Nigeria falls behind in healthcare, especially in the northern areas, in comparison to the junta-led Sahel countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, according to billionaire philanthropist Bill ...

Burkina Faso has completed the transfer of five gold mining assets to the country's state-owned miner, according to a decree published late on Wednesday, finalising a process that began in August to ...

Nearly two years after Niger's military seized power and the border with Benin was shut, tensions over security, sovereignty ...

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the ...

Yusuf Tuggar, minister of foreign affairs, says he is optimistic about the return of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The three junta-led ...