N’DJAMENA, Chad — France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have officially withdrawn from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), marking ...

The President of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar Touray, has said that the Authority of the Head of State and Government of ECOWAS will determine the ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Violent conflicts by jihadists in the Sahel region – Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, in particular – continue to cause mayhem, creating crises in the affected regions. The armed insurgency in Burkina ...

says employee Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger seek bigger share of revenues The move escalates an ongoing dispute between Barrick and Malian authorities, who, like fellow military-led governments in ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – who have formed their own Alliance of Sahel States – from West African bloc Ecowas is set to take effect on 29 January, with security experts and ...

Burkina Faso has been under army rule since January ... Over the past few years, several African nations, including Niger and Mali, have expelled French military bases, while Ivory Coast, Chad ...

The report posits that the jihadist attacks in 2015 and 2016 on hotels and government installations specifically in Mali, Burkina Faso, and the Ivory Coast also included weapons from a common ...

Military governments in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are all trying to renegotiate terms to gain a bigger share of mining revenues after a series of coups that have seen them shift away from their ...