As jihadist violence spreads in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, Western influence wanes, and democracy fades into memory ...

West African Resources began gold production early at Burkina Faso’s Kiaka mine, set to yield 234,000 oz/year. The project aims to reverse declining national output, forecast to rise to 65 tonnes by ...

President Bola Tinubu last week handed over the affairs of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to his ...

Al Itissan Al-Jadeed has been contracted to oversee an upgrade of the passport and national ID systems of the Republic of ...

Morocco’s $1.3bn Atlantic Initiative aims to link Sahel nations to the ocean via Western Sahara, despite coups, rivalries, ...

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

Last year, reporters Sam Mednick and Jeannie Ohm obtained a confidential legal brief submitted to the International Criminal ...

Chad’s adaptive social protection programs, backed by the World Bank and SASPP, have significantly improved household welfare ...

Burkina Faso is many things. The country is considered to be the epicenter of global terrorism today. It is ranked number one ...

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has assumed the chairmanship of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and ...