Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

Mali's military government says it is investigating allegations that soldiers "coldly executed" at least 24 civilians in the ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the interim leader of Burkina Faso, rose to power in September 2022 after leading a coup against ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

The Vatican’s Secretary of State Pietro Cardinal Parolin emphasised that military action must respect human rights during a ...

Canadian miner Barrick Gold has signed a new agreement with the Malian government to end an almost two-year-old dispute over ...

Three Sahel countries Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have signed a mutual defence pact aiming to help each other against possible threats of armed rebellion or external aggression. The charter, known as ...

Following the withdrawal of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso from ECOWAS, there are now fewer countries that Nigerian passport ...

Western media, particularly the French, have launched a massive disinformation campaign against West African countries such ...

Nowhere is the trend towards resource nationalism more advanced than in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the heart of Africa’s “coup belt” and a zone increasingly aligned with Russia and ...

BAMAKO, Mali — As four years of coups have transformed the Sahel, military juntas have repeatedly targeted journalists and advocates for democracy. When the coup-makers in Mali suspended that ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger dealt a huge blow to Ecowas, which at 50 years old is considered Africa's most important regional group. Mali's military leaders also ended ties with ...