The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

Analysis - The military-led nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger officially withdrew from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) on January 29. They had announced their intention to ...

Since Enyimba won successive CAF Champions League titles in 2003 and 2004, no Nigerian club has achieved the same feat let alone win the ’second tier’ CAF Confederation Cup. In fact, most Nigerian ...

The Economic Community of West African States announced recently that the three-member nations where coup plotters overthrew elected governments had finally exited the community. Issues related to ...

At least 10 soldiers were killed by armed assailants in an ambush in western Nigeria, near Burkina Faso's border. The attack ...

The death toll from Lassa fever in Nigeria has risen to 53 according to the latest situation report of the disease obtained from the NCDC on Thursday.

The insecurity rate of Nigeria reached an unprecedented level in the last eight years, largely as a result of the points stated above. This situation has continued to engender more economic hardships ...

The Nigerien military junta recently accused Nigeria of collaborating with France to destabilise his rule by supporting the ...

Lived poverty varies widely across the continent in extent, intensity, and trajectory. For example, over the past decade, severe material deprivation has fallen in Liberia, Burkina Faso, Togo, Gabon, ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

A study finds female genital mutilation or cutting is a leading cause of death: a young woman or girl dies every 12 minutes.