Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to inform the report on older persons in armed conflict and ...

Russia has committed to helping military governments in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger acquire arms and training for a planned ...

Three  journalists arrested over criticism of Burkina Faso's military government junta have appeared in a video, saying they ...

Following his emergence in 2022 as the head of the military junta in Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore and his government have ...

Breakaway Alliance of Sahel States (AES) – Mali, Niger Republic and Burkina Faso – widened the gulf between them and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member nations yesterday.

The head of the junta in Burkina Faso has pardoned 21 soldiers convicted of involvement in a failed coup in 2015, according ...

"Several dozen" soldiers and civilian auxiliaries have been killed in a suspected jihadist attack in eastern Burkina Faso, ...

Disputes surrounding the schedule of presidential and parliamentary elections are fueling the struggle for power and influence in Guinea-Bissau. Efforts by ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

Burkina Faso’s military junta arrested three journalists on March 24, 2025 for reporting on the government crackdown on the ...

NIAMEY, Niger — Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, was sworn in Wednesday as the country’s president for a ...