Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday.

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese ...

THE renewed attacks by armed bandit groups and the intensified violence by Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa leave civilians in North-East ...

Protesters have attacked missions in the capital of the African country as anger grows about the advance of the M23 rebel ...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said that almost 50 millions people are currently suffering ...

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday announced the formal exit of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have officially left West Africa’s main political and trade group ECOWAS after more than a year ...

The army says Nigerian soldiers have killed 79 militants and suspected kidnappers over the past week in an operation ...

Many Congolese see the rebel advance as an invasion of their country by a foreign power in an attempt to seize land and Congo ...