Interview. Activist Dayamba Bindré Roger warns that crises and conflicts increase vulnerability, making people easy targets ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established in 1975 with the aim of promoting economic integration ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

The same month, militants of an Islamic State group affiliate — known as Islamic State Sahel Province — likely shot and killed 21 passengers on a bus in the Arboudji village, near the border with ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that the official withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) raises concerns over access to ...

The Moroccan Embassy in Burkina Faso late on Monday informed the union ... according to Armed Conflict Location & Event Data, a non-profit organization collecting data on the violence.

Caleb Amisi and Babu Owino held a consultative meeting with Karamoko Jean Marie Traore, Minister for Foreign Affairs for ...

The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn ... citizens look even more like a loser in this conflict,” he said. Widely seen as West Africa ...