Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso - former ECOWAS member states - have turned to Russia for security ... who seized power in a ...

The son of one of Mali's top politicians says the country's ruling junta has arrested his father for criticizing the military rulers of neighboring Burkina Faso ...

This January, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger withdrew from the ECOWAS regional bloc, which had threatened to intervene ...

Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of ...

The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African ...

Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty after the West African country abolished it in 2018, a government source told AFP on Saturday.

Guinea’s junta leader Mamadi Doumbouya has elevated himself to the rank of army general as the coup-hit West African country marked the creation of its all-powerful armed forces.

Western and Malian officials and analysts say the Bamako attack underscored both Wagner’s inefficacy in countering Islamist ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s government unnecessarily exposed civilians to danger during a militant attack earlier this year, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday.

This has increased analysis in what either Vice President Kamala Harris will mean as Democratic President, or what former ...

For the United States and its NATO allies, Russia's actions present an opportunity to recalibrate their approach—not just to ...