Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa.Tens ...

Mali and its neighbours have for more than a decade battled militant groups allied to Islamic State and al-Qaeda while ...

Show more River blindness – or onchocerciasis – is a tropical disease which causes itchiness, skin damage, and eventually blindness. It affects millions of people across Africa. In Niger a ...

Niger became the first African country ... culmination of nearly fifty years of collaboration in West Africa to control or eliminate river blindness. According to a press release by The End ...

Malian arts scene threatened by jihadist activity, funding woes West African political shifts ripple through festival in Segou Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger exit ECOWAS, form new alliance SEGOU, Mali ...

Thousands of people rallied Tuesday in Niger and ... of West African States, ECOWAS, which is due to take effect today. Their imminent departure from the bloc, alongside Mali, has fractured ...

Following the military coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger in 2020, 2022, and 2023 respectively, the three countries have changed how they engage with the West ... as South Africa’s ...

Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step ...

REUTERS/Mahamadou Hamidou/File Photo DAKAR (Senegal), Jan 29 (Bernama-dpa) – The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are officially leaving the Economic Community of West African States ...