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

Analysis - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has strong diplomatic relations with the Sahel, also based on the precious metal: gold. Concerned countries are: Sudan, Libya, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad ...

Relive the most dramatic AFCON comebacks in football history. From Mali's miracle vs. Angola to Cameroon's heroics, see the ...

As preparations intensify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), memories of some of the tournament’s comebacks have ...

Presidents and their deputies from across west Africa have met in Nigeria for a regional meeting with agenda dominated by two coup attempts ...

According to several Beninese and Nigerien sources, the military authorities in Niamey were allegedly warned in advance of the attempted coup in Benin on 7.

ECOWAS leaders convene at a summit in Abuja to discuss the recent Benin coup attempt, regional security, and the future of ...

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

The United Nations has reported abuses on all sides. But the allegations against Africa Corps are new, and the AP is reporting them for the first time.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has confirmed that Nigerian soldiers aboard a military aircraft that made a forced landing in Burkina Faso are still in the West African country.Tuggar ...

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