The US signals that restoring democracy is no longer a priority and it is ready to work with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.

Feb 2 (Reuters) - The junta that seized power in Guinea-Bissau in a coup in November has vowed to bring the revolutionary ...

General Musa has disclosed that Nigeria thwarted an attempted coup in Republic of Benin within 12hrs following a direct assistance request.

It’s the latest of several measures that rights groups say are shrinking the civic space in the Sahel nation.

The West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday removed all outstanding sanctions imposed against Guinea following the 2021 coup, after last month's election of former junta leader Mamady Doumbouya ...

DAKAR, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's military-led government has dissolved all political parties and scrapped the legal ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Declan Walsh said Africa should be understood not as a continent of failure or promise, but ...

CONAKRY, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Guinea President Mamady Doumbouya, who came to power in a coup and was sworn in for a seven-year term last month, has retained his mines minister but appointed new ministers ...

In Nigeria, as elsewhere, democratic governance is best understood not as a straight line or some mathematical progression, but as a learning curve--a nonlinear process shaped by all the things that ...

ECOWAS reports its counter-terrorism efforts are complicated by the withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, despite ...

Burkina Faso’s military-led government dissolved all political parties in a sweeping decree, transferring their assets to the ...

The President of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Commission, Omar Alieu Touray, on Thursday, disclosed ...