The Trump administration is facing another lawsuit — this time from USAID contractors and NGOs that argue that the foreign ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid ...

"What is evident is that Benin is now at war--a war waged by French imperialism through proxy jihadist forces," argues Damien Zinsou Degbe of Benin's Council of Patriotic Youth, which has organized ...

Former diplomats on Thursday warned that the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African States could undermine regional stability, potentially escalating ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have officially left West Africa’s main political and trade group ECOWAS after more than a year of diplomatic tension.

(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally ...

“This is ending today, there is nothing left between ECOWAS and us,” Ibro Amadou Bacharou, private chief of staff of Niger’s junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani said. In Burkina ...

The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday, the culmination of a yearlong process during ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have officially severed ties with the ... Addressing the crowd, Ibro Amadou Bacharou, chief of staff to Niger’s junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani, declared, “On ...