ABUJA, Dec 14 - West African bloc ECOWAS rejected on Sunday a transition programme announced by Guinea-Bissau’s military ...

A leader of the West African regional bloc says coups and attempted coups have left the region in a state of emergency.

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

Islamist JNIM fighters have surrounded Mali's capital Bamako, blocking fuel supplies as the West African nation faces ...

Coups and attempted coups in West Africa, along with escalating security challenges, have left the region in a state of ...

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has pledged to defend democracy, deepen economic integration, and ...

A Nigerian human rights advocate, Francis Nwapa, has blamed the military coup in the Republic of Benin on what he described ...

Extremist groups competing for territory across West Africa could turn the region into a fluid insurgency corridor spanning ...

Guinea-Bissau takeover is the latest in the Sahel region, which has quietly become global epicentre of terrorism ...

Show proposes that West and Central African photographers may have helped shape Black identities across the globe ...

This will be the final friendly game for South Africa before they completely switch their focus to the Africa Cup of Nations.