The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

STORY: Tens of thousands of people this week flocked to the Malian town of Segou for a week-long celebration of music, art, ...

Niger is set to hold a national convention to map out its long-awaited political transition following the July 2023 coup that ...

with citizens seeing it as representing only the interests of leaders and not theirs. Relations between ECOWAS and the coup-hit Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso began to deteriorate after the bloc ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, in a joint statement announcing ... Reconciliation Forum in Lomé and interventions by religious leaders, as vital precedents that should be built upon,” he said ...

02/04/2025 February 4, 2025 The military-led governments of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have officially left ECOWAS. We look at what led to the fallout, how ECOWAS tried to get them back, and ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...