Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

An ambush by a group of criminals resulted in the deaths of at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the Burkina Faso border. The ...

A court in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, sentenced former President ... of counterterrorism missions and seek to expand U.S. security amid instability, terrorism ...

Behind the scenes, however, operational cooperation continued between Burkina Faso's National ... in the Burkinabe capital and contacts in regions under tight security. The French authorities ...

The four were transporting electrical equipment from Casablanca to Niamey, the capital of Niger ... The Moroccan Embassy in Burkina Faso informed the union late Monday that the four drivers ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – who have formed their own Alliance of Sahel States – from West African bloc Ecowas is set to take effect on 29 January, with security experts ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

This will happen on Wednesday, all three countries having ignored ECOWAS's call to extend the period by six months to try to find a solution.

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

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 ...