Niger is set to hold a national convention to map out its long-awaited political transition following the July 2023 coup that ...

Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The ...

With France fast losing its influence in west Africa's Sahel region and an unpredictable US president in power, will China fill the vacuum?The Sahel region covers 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, ...

African Parliamentarians highlighted, on Thursday in Rabat, the strategic and multidimensional vocation of King Mohammed VI’s ...

West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three countries formally quit the group ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant ... After leaving ECOWAS, Niger, Mali ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, are officially leaving the regional economic bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday, ...

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

Widely seen as West Africa’s top political and regional authority ... and they created their own security partnership, the Alliance of Sahel States, in September. It’s the first time in the bloc’s ...

In response, the three former French colonies, which have set up their own union, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), have declared that their decision to leave the West African bloc is irreversible.