Three West African countries have joined forces to launch a regional investment bank with a capital of 500 billion CFA francs ...

Eleven Nigerian military officers were briefly detained in Burkina Faso after their aircraft made an emergency landing in the ...

Russia accuses Western powers of waging a “dirty war” to destabilise Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, as Moscow backs their new Sahel alliance and talks up Africa’s “second awakening”. With Lavrov ...

The military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched a regional investment bank with an initial capital ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- A Nigerian Air Force plane made an emergency landing in Burkina Faso late Monday due to an in-flight ...

FILE - The defense chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries excluding Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea and Niger, gather for their extraordinary meeting in Accra, ...

Burkina Faso has released 11 Nigerian military personnel detained after Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft made what the ...

President Donald Trump has expanded a US travel ban, barring nationals of five additional countries and people travelling on ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Armed assailants in western Niger killed at least 10 soldiers in an ambush on a military unit that had been sent to hunt cattle rustlers in a border region near Burkina Faso, ...

ABUJA, NigeriaABUJA, Nigeria — West African nations Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have withdrawn from the regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS, their respective juntas announced Sunday. They accused ...