Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region against rising ...

East African countries have plenty to offer Western miners in the coming years, notably the relative absence of strongarm ...

A joint force of 5,000 troops from military-led neighbours Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali will soon deploy in their troubled ...

Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has appointed a former national security chief as envoy to the alliance formed by Niger ...

The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) has executed the village head of Malam Boulamari, a locality in Niger's Diffa region.

The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) has killed the village head of Malam Boulamari, a locality situated between Mainé Soroa ...

The Women in Mining Africa (WiM Africa), through its implementing partner Richflood Foundation, has launched the 'NextGen ...

Four Moroccan truck drivers who were kidnapped in West Africa over the weekend were released in Niger, officials said, ...

The African Union, established in 2002 to replace the OAU, was designed to address conflicts through “African solutions for ...

The United Nations will this week appeal for $910 million to help tackle a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria, which ...

The $910 million appeal marks the most expensive humanitarian crisis in West and Central Africa, surpassing those in Chad, ...

Nigerian women in Iraq: the women were sent to Iraq as caregivers only to be stranded, as they get there to meet harsh realities ...