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

A leader of the West African regional bloc says coups and attempted coups have left the region in a state of emergency ...

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

West Africa correspondent Monika Pronczuk had already reported on allegations of abuses by Russians fighting jihadists as ...

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

DAKAR (Reuters) -West Africa's ECOWAS and African Union observers on Wednesday expressed concern over the military takeover in Guinea-Bissau and the arrests of election officials, a joint statement ...

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

A coup unfolded in West Africa's Benin, as soldiers stormed a live TV news broadcast to declare President Patrice Talon had ...

A Nigerian human rights advocate, Francis Nwapa, has blamed the military coup in the Republic of Benin on what he described ...

Guinea-Bissau takeover is the latest in the Sahel region, which has quietly become global epicentre of terrorism ...

This will be the final friendly game for South Africa before they completely switch their focus to the Africa Cup of Nations.