Kabul has met with envoys from Ouagadougou and Niamey in recent weeks, an unexpected move given that Sahel militants see the ...

Leonardo Santos Simão, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, is ...

Militant Islamist violence in the Sahel continues to shift southward and westward, putting ever more pressure on population centers in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger—as well as on their coastal West ...

So future negotiations will focus on the remaining seven ECOWAS countries: Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, ...

Several West African countries are intensifying efforts to shed remnants of their colonial past by renaming streets, squares, ...

BY MAYOWA KAMARUDEEN IBRAHIM The Central Sahel region, encompassing Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, has long been ...

Orano said it had been unable to contact its mining director in Niger, who was taken to the headquarters of the country's ...

The new authorities in Dakar espouse bilateral cooperation and diplomatic pragmatism, within the context of reshaping ...

Also in January, four Moroccan truck drivers went missing on the border between Niger and Burkina Faso. (Reporting by Moussa Aksar in Niamey; additional reporting by Jatindra Dash in Bhubaneswar ...

French nuclear fuels company, Orano has announced legal proceedings against the Republic of Niger following the detention of ...