The June 6 announcement by the infamous Wagner Group private military company, that it will end its ...

Some African presidents flew straight to Ouagadougou to sign the interim unity documents when they could not land. Some ...

The two-year-old Africa Corps, which has links to a covert branch of Russia’s army, is ascendant at a time when U.S. and ...

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 ...

The Illustrated Flora of Burkina Faso and Mali is the first comprehensive documentation of the remarkable plant diversity in these two west African countries. Written in French, the book is the ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have been under military rule following military coups. Though each coup had its own characteristics and specific triggers, their causes in structural terms were very ...

Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali have formed an alternative, the Alliance of Sahel States. The Conversation Africa asked researcher Daniel Eizenga where the country was headed under Traoré’s ...

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Wednesday officially recognized the exit of three of its former ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger is a huge blow to Ecowas, which at 50 years old is considered Africa's most important regional group. The split was sparked after the three departing ...