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

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

But unlike others displaced in the region, they are seen as a challenge to Burkina Faso’s military junta that ... to the market and killed several men, including her husband.

It was in this context that the four men traveled to Ouagadougou on November ... been quite complimentary about them," confided a Burkina Faso military officer. The junta leader's sympathy for ...

Thousands of people rallied on Tuesday in Niger and Burkina Faso in support of the move. Led by members of the military-led government in Niger’s capital Niamey, they chanted slogans hostile to ...

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

This will happen on Wednesday, all three countries having ignored ECOWAS's call to extend the period by six months to try to find a solution.

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 Africa States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday announced the formal exit of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso ...

The three countries will put their own common passport into circulation on Wednesday and have announced a unified army of 5,000 men.

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 ...