As Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger prepare to withdraw from the West African bloc Ecowas, reports show an increase in instability in the region - partly due to a lack of coordination in the fight against ...

BY FOLAWIYO KAREEM OLAJOKU The recent expulsion of French troops from West African countries, including Mali, Burkina ...

Youth Protests, Liberation-Era Parties Shaken, Civil War & The Ouster of West From elections to political instability, ...

Will the Alliance of Sahel States quell their struggles with Islamist militants, and ask their Russian security guests to ...

The United States military has completed its withdrawal from Niger after 11 years of military cooperation with the west ...

Ivory Coast is the latest country in West Africa to ask French troops to leave for good. It follows similar decisions by Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal and Chad. We analyse France's shrinking ...

Ivory Coast’s president announced the withdrawal of French troops from the country, joining a growing number of francophone ...

At least 69 people died, including 25 Malian nationals, after a boat headed from West Africa to Spain capsized off Morocco on ...

The troops are expected to leave Ivory Coast this month as France, a former colonial power in West Africa, fast loses ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has given Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso up till July next year to ...

Samuel Ramani, an associate fellow at the RUSI think tank and the author of the book Russia in Africa, described the collapse ...

Large loads of timber of different species, notably rosewood, are moved across the border at night; illegal logging is carried out in numerous forest communities in Ghana’s Oti region.