Niger has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross to cease operations, and for its foreign staff to leave the country. The move leaves NGOs throughout West Africa wondering what the ...

The 1990s brought some positive changes. With the end of the Cold War, dozens of African countries experienced ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

Two associates of Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the small West African ...

The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, are officially leaving the regional economic bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday, ...

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

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday.

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas ... Burkina Faso in 2022 and Mali ...

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

West African nations formally leave ECOWAS in an unprecedented disintegration of the regional bloc.