Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have imposed a 0.5% levy on imports, funding their breakaway union and marking a significant ...

West African neighbours of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have imposed a new 0.5% levy on imported goods. They said this in a ...

Analysis - Mistrust between AES and ECOWAS countries must be overcome to enable intelligence sharing and security cooperation ...

Burkina Faso and Mali were also suspended following their own military coups – with the OIF sanctioning them in 2022 and 2020 respectively. Nonetheless, the OIF says it considers these multiple ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Video footage circulating on social networks of a recent civilian massacre in Burkina Faso appears to implicate government ... much of it spilling over the border with Mali, and ...

Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step.

They fear that the decision could disrupt decades of essential cross-border trade. The development also increases tensions between Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and other West African countries.

“You’ve got polarisation between different groups within the Sahel countries ... have intensified in the tri-border areas of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. The three countries withdrew from the ...