STORY: French troops lowered their flag from a base in Chad on Friday, marking the end of France's military presence in the ...

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 ...

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online claiming Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore has officially banned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Niger and its neighbors Mali and Burkina Faso have battled for over a decade ... the ruling juntas have expelled French forces and turned to Russia’s mercenary units for security assistance.