West African leaders have given Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso more time to reconsider their split from the ECOWAS regional ...

Following the confirmed exit of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger—now the "Alliance of Sahel States"—the ECOWAS bloc is now ...

African voters participated in more than a dozen elections in 2024, including presidential, parliamentary, and local ...

West African leaders from the regional group ECOWAS met on Sunday for a summit with three nation members led by military governments on the brink of quitting the bloc.

West African leaders from the regional group ECOWAS on Sunday gave three countries led by military governments six months to ...

Analysis - For over six decades, Chad was a crucial ally to French and US forces in their counter-insurgency operations in ...

The Sahel is Africa’s Achilles« heel today. As the region grapples with numerous crises—ranging from the alarming ...

The French political elite's response to declining influence in West Africa and the Sahel has been marked by a striking degree of apathy' - Arnaud Bertrand, political observer These developments ...

But even as ties have grown in recent years, Washington’s foreign policy establishment still considers Africa to be a ...