Ivory Coast wants the Trump administration to station U.S. spy planes in the country’s north to carry out cross-border operations targeting Al Qaeda-allied jihadists wreaking havoc across the Sahel, ...

The United Nations has reported abuses on all sides. But the allegations against Africa Corps are new, and the AP is ...

France weakened Nigeria’s rise for decades. Now that France is retreating, Nigeria’s sudden closeness to Paris risks ...

The Chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, has declared that unity among West African states was no longer ...

The Algerian state that they helped create in a bitter anti-colonial war with France became a colonial state itself, they ...

West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday threatened "targeted sanctions" on anyone obstructing Guinea-Bissau's return to ...

A makeshift village in the Mauritanian desert shelters thousands of refugees who have fled Mali in recent weeks as fighting ...

The recent coup attempt in Benin Republic and Nigeria’s intervention have raised no little dust. In this analysis BIYI ...

Nigeria has permitted the United States to conduct armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) strikes on terror groups organizing m ...

Investment bank BCID-AES established in Bamako Bank aims to fund infrastructure, agriculture, and energy projects in member states Key decisions pending on capital size and potential international ...

The Director General of AGRHYMET, Dr Issoufou Baoua, led a high-level delegation to the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) as part of the Joint Mission on the operationalisation of the Regional ...

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president ...