Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force ...

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online ...

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

Not very long ago, Burkina Faso had one of the bloodiest attacks in decades . More than a thousand civilians have died since the rebellion that originated in Mali began to spread throughout the nation ...

Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali have formed a joint 5,000-strong military force to combat extremist violence in the Sahel region. After expelling French forces, the countries now rely on Russia's ...

The juntas in the three countries left the Economic Community of West African States, the nearly 50-year-old regional bloc ...

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

The drivers were the latest victims of insecurity in the Sahel, an arid swath of land south of the Sahara ... The Moroccan Embassy in Burkina Faso informed the union late Monday that the four ...