Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso no longer orient themselves towards France or Western business interests. As demand for raw ...

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Bazoum, who was elected in 2021, was overthrown on 26 July 2023 by General Abdourahamane Tiani, the head of his presidential ...

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 three countries led by military regimes formally notified ECOWAS of their desire for “immediate” withdrawal. But the texts of the West African organisation required one year’s notice for it ...

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 ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso.

Niger lies 80th out of 180 countries on the 2024 Press Freedom Index published by Paris-based media rights campaigners Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Already in November, another journalist at ...

Abdoulaye had previously told AFP that the communications minister had lifted the channel and Amadou's reporting suspensions.

France has handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities. The move on Thursday came two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation ...

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

French forces have been ousted in recent years from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso following ... of French troops from their countries, just as Paris was devising a new strategy that would sharply ...