Participants at the 2025 Crans Montana Forum (CMF) which opened on Friday in Casablanca highlighted the positive impact of ...

Diplomatic tensions between Benin and its junta-led Sahel neighbours Niger and Burkina Faso have led to a security vacuum ...

Algeria is rounding up migrants and dumping them across the border with Niger, according to a regional migrant rights group.

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has concluded arrangements to relocate its institutions from Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger following their withdrawal from the body. ECOWAS Council of ...

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Council of Ministers will be meeting in Accra, Ghana, to deliberate on ...

The ECOWAS Council of Ministers will hold an Extraordinary Session from April 22 to 23, 2025, in Accra to discuss the withdrawal ...

As part of the escalation, Algeria also recalled its ambassadors from Mali and allied Niger and suspended the appointment of a new envoy to Burkina Faso. Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso jointly form a ...

Niger, along with Mali and Burkina Faso, also former French colonies now under military rule, has withdrawn from the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), an international ...

On Sunday, Mali and its allies Niger and Burkina Faso – all three countries run by the military – withdrew their ambassadors from Algeria, a move Algiers quickly reciprocated. The airspace ...

Like Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which also have military governments and used to be French colonies, are taking similar steps. They’ve also pulled out of the Organisation Internationale de la ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Diss ECOWAS, Issue Own Passports This week, Niger’s transitional administration has downgraded the status of French and designated Hausa as the national language of ...

Niger’s junta has adopted Hausa as the national language in the place of French in a further break from Paris, its former colonial master. Since overthrowing civilian president Mohamed Bazoum in ...