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

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

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

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

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

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

France helped the authorities in Benin thwart a coup attempt at the weekend, an aide to President Emmanuel Macron said ...

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.