For the first time after the withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger Republic, the three countries under the Alliance of ...

As Ecowas prepares to mark 50 years since its founding, questions are arising about whether West Africans still have faith in ...

In a significant step towards strengthening judicial ties, the justice ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger (forming the ...

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, have expressed ...

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, have expressed ...

A posse of turban-clad soldiers perched on “ships of the desert” may conjure images of the past — but Mauritania’s camelback cavalry ...

The Alliance of Sahel States-Economic Community of West African States split has sparked pragmatic cooperation based on strategic interests between neighbouring countries.

Militant Islamist violence in the Sahel continues to shift southward and westward, putting ever more pressure on population centers in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger—as well as on their coastal West ...

The last time that foreign ministers from both continents met, Russia had not launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the ...

Conflicts across Africa have displaced more than 45 million people, the highest number on record by the end of 2024. The ...

Leonardo Santos Simão, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, is ...