The Economic Community of West African States announced recently that the three-member nations where coup plotters overthrew elected governments had finally exited the community. Issues related to ...

The 1990s brought some positive changes. With the end of the Cold War, dozens of African countries experienced ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

Terry Holohan is leaving the gold miner after taking time away following his release by Mali’s ruling military junta.

The chief executive of Anglo-Australian gold miner Resolute Mining, who was temporarily detained in Mali last year, has ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

Widely seen as West Africa’s leading political and regional authority, the 15-nation ECOWAS was formed in 1975 to “promote ...

West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three countries formally quit the group ...

NIAMEY, Niger, Feb 6, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Niger's army said Wednesday that 10 soldiers died in an "ambush" in the western Tillaberi region near Burkina Faso, where authorities have been battling a ...

The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...

Niger has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross to cease operations, and for its foreign staff to leave the country. The move leaves NGOs throughout West Africa wondering what the ...

(Reuters) - Two former company executives with inside knowledge of Barrick Gold's operations in West Africa are helping to drive Mali's demands for a payment of around $200 million from the ...