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Forced out of their homes by armed groups, displaced families in Burkina Faso rely on humanitarian aid to meet their children ...

The 2024 crisis exposed structural faults at the core of the West African regional body. At 50, can the once-great ...

BAMAKO, Mali — Armed men attacked a Mali community just over the border from Senegal, Mali’s military said Tuesday — a ...

Mali has completed its takeover of the Yatela and Morila gold mines abandoned by their previous owners, the government ...

Morocco’s $1.3bn Atlantic Initiative aims to link Sahel nations to the ocean via Western Sahara, despite coups, rivalries, ...

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

Regional Representative for West Africa at AATF and Project Manager of the Pod Borer-Resistant (PBR) Cowpea initiative, Dr.

Ibrahim Traoré counts admirers from Nairobi to Jamaica and London. Russia is also courting him.

Another 40 near-endemic species (mainly only found in Burkina Faso and Mali) have only been seen once 40 years ago. Most of those are aquatic plants, growing along the Niger River, or in small ...

Burkina Faso and Mali were also suspended following their own military coups - with the OIF sanctioning them in 2022 and 2020 respectively. Nonetheless, the OIF says it considers these multiple ...

Junta-led countries Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso officially left West Africa's main political and trade group ECOWAS on Wednesday after more than a year of diplomatic tensions.