Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier ...

Three junta-led nations have left the regional economic bloc ECOWAS, citing alleged French influence on the group. Burkina ...

On Wednesday Ecowas said it would keep its "doors open" to Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, even though they have forged ahead with their own bloc, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES by its French ...

France has finally ended its 60-year military presence in Chad by closing its last military base there. Kosseï camp in the capital N'Djamena was also the last of its bases in the Sahel, which were ...

They chanted slogans hostile to French President Emmanuel Macron as ... there is nothing left between ECOWAS and us," he said. In Burkina Faso, thousands of people including Prime Minister ...

The memberships of the three West African countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have been formally withdrawn from the 15-me ...

two French journalists working for Radio France Internationale. Many parts of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are hard to access and journalists who try are exposed to great danger. The same goes for ...

The West African regional bloc ECOWAS has formally recognized the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, after more than a year of diplomatic tensions. The latest development marks a ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso formally leave ECOWAS The three junta-led West African nations, who have come together to form the Alliance of Sahel States (ASS) after their coups, formally left the ...