This is the first time that officials have said how many foreign soldiers were deployed to help thwart the mutiny.

A leader of the West African regional bloc says coups and attempted coups have left the region in a state of emergency.

West Africa correspondent Monika Pronczuk had already reported on allegations of abuses by Russians fighting jihadists as ...

It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is set to abolish air transport taxes from 1 January 2026, in a bid to ...

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

Islamist JNIM fighters have surrounded Mali's capital Bamako, blocking fuel supplies as the West African nation faces ...

Military juntas in three West African states warned they would shoot down any aircraft that violated their airspace, after a ...

A Nigerian human rights advocate, Francis Nwapa, has blamed the military coup in the Republic of Benin on what he described ...

Guinea-Bissau takeover is the latest in the Sahel region, which has quietly become global epicentre of terrorism ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has received a financial boost of €18 million from the French ...

This will be the final friendly game for South Africa before they completely switch their focus to the Africa Cup of Nations.