General's Special Envoy for West Africa and the Sahel Leonardo Santos Simao called for the establishment of a cooperation ...

Mansa Musa was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire. His reign in the 14th century is often regarded as the height of Mali's ...

Power has its perks in Niger and the rules are being rewritten by those in charge. On Thursday, a national commission, representing participants to talks on the country’s transition to democratic rule ...

France said on Thursday it would keep 80 military personnel in Ivory Coast largely for training purposes, as it handed over control of a military base in the commercial capital amid a scaling back of ...

Niger's National Conference has submitted a proposal to return the country to non-military rule after a five-year transition ...

An apparent Islamist armed group attacked a civilian convoy escorted by Malian armed forces and allied militias in ...

On Saturday 15 February 2025, the first official presentation of the new and 40th book by the French-Cameroonian ...

Niger’s National Conference has submitted a proposal to return the country to non-military rule after a five-year transition period during which the current military government will stay in power ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

The Alliance for Sahel States (AES) has replaced ECOWAS passports with new biometric passports for its member states ・The ...

Yakubu Gowon, the only surviving founding member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has expressed optimism about the regional bloc’s future despite the recent withdrawal ...

The military rulers of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso appear to be jointly pursuing a similar isolationist course in the Sahel regionImage: Mahamadou Hamidou/REUTERS Medical charity Doctors Without ...