The tri-border region has long been plagued by extremist violence. Just last month, a jihadi group attacked a village there, ...

Foreign ministers of military-ruled Sahel states of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger said on Monday they endorse an initiative ...

A week after an attempted coup in Burkina Faso, the situation remains tense in Ouagadougou, particularly among the armed ...

President John Mahama says the withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the Economic Community of West Africa States ...

Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1,800 migrants and left them at the Nigerien border in a record expulsion earlier this month, a Niger-based migrant rights group said Thursday.

Algeria and Mali share a 1,400-kilometer border and long-standing cultural ties, but their visions for the region have ...

Since its founding in 1975, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been a cornerstone of regional ...

Twelve Nigerien soldiers have been killed in an attack in the west of the Sahel country and two suspects have been arrested, the army said in a statement seen by Reuters on Saturday. The attack took ...