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.

For decades it looked as though Simandou’s riches might never be dug up. Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian miner, first won ...

West African bloc delegation arrives in Guinea-Bissau for talks with military coup leaders - ECOWAS delegation has arrived in ...

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

West Africa's ECOWAS and African Union observers on Wednesday expressed concern over the military takeover in Guinea-Bissau ...

A delegation from the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS arrived in Guinea-Bissau on Monday for mediation talks with ...

Senegal's prime minister and Nigeria's former leader say they do not believe the military takeover was genuine.

A patient with the rare, but highly infectious Marburg virus disease has died in Guinea, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) statement on Monday. It's the first case of the Ebola-like virus ...

ECOWAS’ Mediation and Security Council condemns coup and rejects any arrangement that perpetuates 'the illegal abortion of ...

ECOWAS has urged West African leaders to demonstrate renewed courage and unity in defending democracy, warning that the latest ...

The resolution was issued following an Extraordinary Virtual Session of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council (MSC) at ...