West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOW­AS) says it is working to attract about 10 million intra-com­munity tourists to the subregion annually by 2029. ECOWAS Commissioner for Economic ...

The junta successfully built a strong anti-French sentiment in Francophone African ...

The Ijaw Youths Council, a prominent socio-cultural group in the region, has now stepped forward to challenge the government’s actions.

Gambia, according to Vines, has been more successful.Peacekeepers from Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria have kept the ECOWAS mission in the country going since 2017. "But I think ad hoc arrangements ...

The announcement comes as most West African nations are rethinking their relationship with France, which is losing its clout in the region ... regional organization ECOWAS, which requires them ...

Conflict still occurs over shared waters; however, since the late 1800s, and particularly since the end of World War II, cooperation has been the dominant interaction between countries in the world’s ...

You have to hand it to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament selection committee for not only putting four of the sport’s largest coaching personalities in the same region, but also for putting ...

You have to hand it to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament selection committee for not only putting four of the sport’s largest coaching personalities in the same region, but also for putting ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step. In a letter seen by The Associated Press on ...