ABUJA, Dec 14 - West African bloc ECOWAS rejected on Sunday a transition programme announced by Guinea-Bissau’s military ...

A leader of the West African regional bloc says coups and attempted coups have left the region in a state of emergency ...

France helped the authorities in Benin thwart a coup attempt at the weekend, an aide to President Emmanuel Macron said ...

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has pledged to defend democracy, deepen economic integration, and ...

Some 200 soldiers, mainly from Nigeria and Ivory Coast, have been deployed to the country.

Applications are now officially open for the 2026 West Africa Oil and Gas Development Undergraduate Scholarship for eligible ...

The military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched a regional investment bank with an initial capital ...

A century ago, the discovery by prospectors of precious stones south of the Orange River, which now forms part of South ...

Extremist groups competing for territory across West Africa could turn the region into a fluid insurgency corridor spanning ...

This is the first time that officials have said how many foreign soldiers were deployed to help thwart the mutiny.

Islamist JNIM fighters have surrounded Mali's capital Bamako, blocking fuel supplies as the West African nation faces ...