It's tempting to conflate France's military exit from Cote d'Ivoire with its withdrawals from other regional countries. But ...

Members of the French DGSE were 'held hostage' for a year in Ouagadougou, accused of espionage by putsch leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré. It took bitter negotiations and the decisive intervention of ...

Scores of people on Tuesday rallied in Niger and Burkina Faso in support of the withdrawal of their countries from the ...

Thousands of people rallied Tuesday in Niger and Burkina Faso in support of the withdrawal of their countries from the ...

This will happen on Wednesday, all three countries having ignored ECOWAS's call to extend the period by six months to try to find a solution.

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

Their military rulers accuse ECOWAS of having imposed “inhuman, illegal and illegitimate” sanctions against them after the coups ...

On Saturday, 11 January on Paris's Place de la République ... Operating in parts of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Chad, these groups aspire to form a jihadist caliphate in the Sahel ...

Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and ...

Très endommagée suite à une tempête, l’école de Sorgho-Yarcé, construite avec l’aide de l’association entre 1999 et 2009, possède par ailleurs un nouveau toit qui a permis d ...