Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – who have formed their own ... However, exiled Malian opposition figure Ismaël Sakho, who is president of the African Social Democratic Party ...

The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn ... the region with an ECOWAS passport. ECOWAS president Omar Alieu Touray told reporters in Nigeria ...

Night had just fallen on December 18, 2024, when a Bombardier Challenger 604 private jet touched down at Ouagadougou airport in Burkina Faso ... Elysée announced that President Emmanuel Macron ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — (AP) — The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn ... with an ECOWAS passport. ECOWAS president Omar Alieu Touray told ...

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin ... Mali and Burkina Faso. Those three, all now controlled by juntas, have ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request in 2013, France has given up most of its military footprint across west ...

USAID lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid after the Trump administration froze foreign funding and idled staff, a government watchdog warned Monday.

Burkina Faso, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria and Niger — sit among the top 10 in the Institute for Economics and Peace’s 2024 Global ...

The Sahel countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger in recent years have ... according to data from the U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, or ACLED. JNIM, the Sahelian ...