west africa

CNN  —  Four army officers were arrested in Burkina Faso, a military prosecutor said, a day after the country’s ruling…

CNN  —  France’s ambassador to Niger is staying put in the West African country in defiance of an ultimatum by…

CNN  —  The West African regional bloc ECOWAS says it has chosen an undisclosed “D-Day” for a possible military intervention…

CNN  —  A Niger general, Abdourahamane Tiani, appeared on state television as the country’s new leader following a military coup…

CNN  — The mediator sent to Burkina Faso by West Africa’s main political and economic bloc ECOWAS, Mahamadou Issoufou, on Tuesday…

(CNN) – Scores of attackers were killed in Mali on Wednesday, after the country’s military pushed back on three separate…

Conakry, Guinea (Reuters) – One person was killed in Guinea’s capital late on Wednesday during protests over fuel price hikes,…

CONAKRY, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A delegation from West Africa’s main political and economic bloc on Friday met Guinea’s ousted…

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A resurgence of coronavirus cases in West Africa is hitting the region hard, inundating cemeteries where…

Since its conception in 2003, leaders of the fifteen-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have postponed the launch of…