The tri-border region has long been plagued by extremist violence. Just last month, a jihadi group attacked a village there, ...

A week after an attempted coup in Burkina Faso, the situation remains tense in Ouagadougou, particularly among the armed ...

At least 12 Nigerien soldiers were killed in an armed attack in Western Niger's Tillaberi region, the army said on Sunday.

Niger's army says an attack by armed men in western Niger has left 12 soldiers dead in a border area that has long been a ...

Diplomatic tensions between Benin and its junta-led Sahel neighbours Niger and Burkina Faso have led to a security vacuum ...

Twelve Nigerien soldiers have been killed in an attack in the west of the Sahel country and two suspects have been arrested, the army said in a statement seen by Reuters on Saturday.

Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1,800 migrants and left them at the Nigerien border in a record expulsion earlier this month, a Niger-based migrant rights group said Thursday.

President John Mahama says the withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the Economic Community of West Africa States ...

The challenge will be translating the country’s rich mineral resources and promising economy into stability and development.

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

We are not against genuine democracy . We are against Western hypocrisy . rdquo; These words echo the sentiment rising across ...

Burkina Faso’s government foiled a coup plot targeting Captain Ibrahim Traoré, involving soldiers and terrorist groups aiming ...