President John Mahama, who is acting as a mediator, has briefed ECOWAS Chairman, President Bola Tinubu, on his recent visits ...

Should Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger lead the call for reparations from France? Well according to Alain Kone, an expert at the International Center for Political Studies, these countries have ...

Three West African countries - Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso - have finalized their exit from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Another thing they have in common? All three ...

The recent formal exit of the Alliance of Sahel States or Alliance d’Etats Sahel, AES, from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is a big blow to Africa’s best known regional ...

All three countries forming the the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) – Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso – have withdrawn from the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), that groups ...

Mali’s newly launched Alliance of Sahel States (AoSS) passport has yet to receive clearance for travel in France or the wider Schengen Area, nearly two months after the confederation’s formal ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Togo Robert Dussey has again raised the possibility of the country joining the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). In a social media post, he emphasized that it was “a ...

Larry Gbevlo-Lartey, Ghana’s new key liaison to the Alliance of Sahel States, sits down with The Africa Report to discuss how to be a good neighbour. Ghana’s new special envoy to the Alliance of Sahel ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An attack by a jihadi group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

Togo is signalling a potential realignment in West African geopolitics as it openly explores joining the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), a coalition of military-led Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.

Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step.