ECOWAS will scrap air taxes and cut charges from January 2026 to lower fares, boost travel, and support airlines.

The African continent, long a theatre of political experimentation and turbulence, has in recent years witnessed a dramatic resurgence of military interventions in governance. Since 2020, at least ...

President Bola Tinubu on Sunday rallied West African leaders to close ranks against fresh shocks to democracy, citing the recent coup attempt in Benin Republic and renewed instability in Guinea-Bissau ...

Exploring the sharp contrast between Ibrahim Traore vs Sankara. While Traore is charismatic, his divisive policies differ ...

West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday threatened "targeted sanctions" on anyone obstructing Guinea-Bissau's return to ...

President Bola Tinubu is attending the 68th Ordinary Session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and ...

A makeshift village in the Mauritanian desert shelters thousands of refugees who have fled Mali in recent weeks as fighting ...

A week ago, on December 7, 2025, President Emmanuel Macron of France made a statement that confirmed what many Nigerians had long feared: his personal closeness to President Bola Tinubu may have ...

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

The Benin events mark the third coup attempt and first failed coup this year in the Sahel region. There have been 17 coup attempts in Africa since 2020, including 11 successful coups. This makes the ...

The October kidnapping by suspected jihadists of an American pilot working for an evangelical Christian missionary agency in ...

Ivory Coast seeks U.S. military presence to combat Al Qaeda-allied jihadists in the Sahel, proposing U.S. spy planes for ...