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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

More than 400 soldiers have reportedly been killed by insurgents since the start of May in bases and towns in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, an unstable region prone to coups.

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, 34 years old, became the provisional head of Burkina Faso’s government after a military coup in ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger — each now led by a junta — left in January, causing the biggest split to the body since its ...

Even without brothers who left our organization,’ ECOWAS has an ‘understanding of the need to continue together as members of ...

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