Niger has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to cease operations, and for its foreign staff to leave ...

With demand shrinking at home, Chinese cement giants, including West China Cement and Huaxin, are aggressively expanding into Africa.

The Economic Community of West African States announced recently that the three-member nations where coup plotters overthrew elected governments had finally exited the community. Issues related to ...

Storyline: Many people in Niger have welcomed the country's departure from the Economic Community of West African States ...

The military-led nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger officially withdrew from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) on January 29. They had announced their intention to leave one ...

African governments are changing the rules of the mining game in order to collect a higher share of the profit. Although they ...

The Nigerien military junta recently accused Nigeria of collaborating with France to destabilise his rule by supporting the ...

At the Berlin symposium marking the 140th anniversary of the Berlin Conference on Africa, Togolese Foreign Minister Robert Dussey emphasized the need for a "sincere" dialogue between Africa and Europe ...

Morocco is increasingly a focus of European alliance-building and investment, including in illegally occupied Western Sahara. French president Emmanuel Macron is leading moves to normalize the colony, ...