The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has appealed to Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to reconsider ...

Kehinde Sanni spends his days smoothing out dents and repainting scratched bumpers in a modest autobody shop in Lagos. He's ...

The Sahel continues to be the region with the most terrorist violence, with Burkina Faso again being the country with the ...

Last week’s agreement between Togo and Burkina Faso to end roaming charges for incoming calls comes into effect at the end of this month. But is it really part of a growing wave of roaming initiatives ...

"The Illustrated Flora of Burkina Faso and Mali" is the first comprehensive documentation of the remarkable plant diversity ...

Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in support of the military junta after an ...

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Niger State government is to partner Overland Airways on scheduled commercial flight operations from the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Airport, Minna, the chief executive officer of Overland ...

Adama Zonon, founder of the Baba Traoré Ecological Park in Bobo-Dioulasso, April 4, 2025 (Photo by Davy Soma / LCI) Adama Zonon, a Muslim businessman in Bobo-Dioulasso—Burkina Faso’s economic ...

On Monday, fellow junta-led states Burkina Faso and Niger, which have also turned their backs on France while forging ties with Russia, announced their withdrawal from the OIF. The three have also ...

President John Mahama has invited the military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to the 50th anniversary launch of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Accra. At a ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Niger faces significant challenges to mobilize revenue, with one of the lowest tax revenue to GDP ratios in the region.