Mali's military authorities on Thursday granted the junta chief a five-year presidential mandate, renewable "as many times as ...

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 ...

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

Burkina Faso is many things. The country is considered to be the epicenter of global terrorism today. It is ranked number one ...

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.

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Wednesday officially recognized the exit of three of its former ...