If the collapse of EAC, and now ECOWAS, teaches us anything, it is that the greatest risk to regional blocs is men in uniform ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has initiated the post-exit dialogue with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, which will determine the new relationship between the rest of the region ...

Two former company executives with inside knowledge of Barrick Gold's operations in West Africa are helping to push Mali's demands for a payment of around $200 million from the Canadian miner, sources ...

Two former company executives with inside knowledge of Barrick Gold's operations in West Africa are helping to drive Mali's ...

The M23 rebel group's assault on the Democratic Republic of the Congo's eastern city of Goma has brought familiar dangers for Congolese journalists, who for years have navigated intimidation and ...

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

Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and the financing of terrorism, said global police body Interpol on Thursday.

On his part, a retired diplomat, Rasheed Akinkuolie, dismissed the military juntas in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso as “illegitimate dictatorships” and called for sustained pressure from ...