Former diplomats on Thursday warned that the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West ...
Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...
The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...
The largely desert country had been a key link in France's military presence in Africa and its last foothold in the wider ...
The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have posed a major challenge to the ...
The three countries, led by military governments, cited ECOWAS's alleged alignment with former colonial powers and failure to ...
The Malian army said it has killed a local terrorist leader, operating in central Mali and several other terrorists, during ...
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 ...