With his counterinsurgency strategy only deepening Burkina Faso's security crisis, Traore has turned to repressing anyone he ...

The Russia-backed Wagner Group says it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists ...

Mali said Thursday that 41 terrorists including Nigerien terrorist leader Mamoudou Akilou were killed and several others ...

Extremists have killed dozens of soldiers in an attack on a military base in Mali. That's according to civil society and ...

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Islamist militants hit two more military installations on Wednesday and Thursday, Mali's army said, the latest in a quick spate of attacks that the insurgents say have killed ...

Tension in the Sahel, especially in crisis-ridden Burkina Faso and Mali, shows no sign of abating, reaching critical levels .

Yusuf Tuggar, minister of foreign affairs, says he is optimistic about the return of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to the ...

The government in Togo has suspended the issuance of new mining permits to all foreign companies in the country. A ...

Plagued by conflict, Cameroon has overtaken Burkina Faso as the world's "most neglected" humanitarian crisis hotspot, the ...

Tuggar said although the three countries have exited ECOWAS, Nigeria and other member countries would continue relating with ...

Foreign Minister Tuggar has said ECOWAS’ door remains open to Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger’s eventual return.