France has handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities. The move on Thursday came two months after the ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

Suspected terrorists affiliated with Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, JNIM, have launched a coordinated and deadly assault ...

France’s military withdrawals provide West African states with a long overdue opportunity to assert their sovereignty. But ...

Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Christopher Musa, on Wednesday charged Niger Republic, Burkina Faso, and Mali to ...

Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Gabon made the move in the past three years, followed by Senegal, Chad and Côte d'Ivoire in recent weeks. Some have gone as far as demanding a complete withdrawal of ...

Andrew Herscowitz, CEO of the Mission 300 Accelerator said at a briefing to delegates that the programme involves 23 projects in Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of ...

In 2013, it launched Operation Serval in Mali, replaced in 2014 by Operation Barkhane in partnership with the G5 Sahel countries, namely Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, an alliance ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Thousands of people rallied in junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali on Tuesday to back their withdrawal from the Economic ...

The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, are officially leaving the regional economic bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday, ...

Taken over by the state in April after the loss of its strategic partner Aga Khan, Air Burkina is due to be sold off to the private sector at some point in 2018. Founded in 1967, the national airline ...