West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday threatened "targeted sanctions" on anyone obstructing Guinea-Bissau's return to ...

By the early 2000s, West Africa appeared to be turning a corner. Multi-party elections had replaced decades of ...

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

DAKAR, Senegal -- A Nigerian Air Force plane made an emergency landing in Burkina Faso late Monday due to an in-flight ...

The fate of 11 Nigerian military personnel aboard remains unclear following a statement by the Confederation of the States of ...

The military junta in Burkina Faso has adopted a bill restoring the death penalty nearly a decade after the West African ...