Since its founding in 1975, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been a cornerstone of regional ...

Algeria has launched a mass deportation exercise involving thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants to neighbouring ...

Brits have been warned that the Foreign Office is advised against “all but essential travel” to 21 countries. Venturing to ...

Analysis - Despite the bitter exit of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from ECOWAS and their formation of the rival AES, the destinies of the two blocs remain deeply intertwined.

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France was recently asked to leave Chad, and its relations in central and West Africa are increasingly weak. With Russian ...

A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

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Operating in an unstructured—and some may say ungoverned—environment, where six countries (Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Mali, and Sudan), mostly located in the Sahel region, have ...

ALTHOUGH Tanzania is not mentioned in a new global report which projects worsening food insecurity in some countries across ...

Nigeria has reduced electricity supply to Niger Republic by 42%, leading to widespread power cuts in the West African nation ...

The decision by the military-led Alliance of Sahel States to impose a 0.5% tariff on goods from rival ECOWAS nations has ...