Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

The UK Foreign Office has issued multiple travel warnings for several countries and areas within countries across the world.

An ambush by a group of criminals resulted in the deaths of at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the Burkina Faso border. The ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

AN AMBUSH by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso this week, Niger’s military rulers said on Wednesday.

The recent withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has raised ...

Burkina Faso is leaving the West African regional bloc ECOWAS to join counterterrorism forces with Niger and Mali. The junta ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established in 1975 with the aim of promoting economic integration ...

The three countries vowed to strengthen their cooperation by ... Ten soldiers were killed and seven others injured in an attack near Niger’s border with Burkina Faso last December, the army said. The ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s transitional president, has become the first recipient of the new Alliance of Sahel ...