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

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

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

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 ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with ... with citizens seeing it as representing only the interests of leaders and not theirs. Why did the 3 junta-led ...

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 ...

Yakubu Gowon, the only surviving founding father of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), says he is ...

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 ...

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