The military-led nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger officially withdrew from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) on January 29. They had announced their intention to leave one ...

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

Within ECOWAS, there’s an institution known as the Community Court of Justice. Since 2005, this Court has had jurisdiction to ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

Ladislaus Ludesche examines the marginalisation of the Global South in USA’s most widely covered news programme (ABC World ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...

Pour la troisième année consécutive, tous les pays oubliés de ce classement se trouvent en Afrique avec en tête, l'Angola.

Experts dubbed those countries a “coup belt.” Among others, that belt includes Burkina Faso. Russia and the juntas frame the anti-West glissade as a start of decolonization processes leading ...

Le Burkina Faso a franchi une étape historique en réglant intégralement une dette de 4,8 milliards de dollars, et ce, sans l’appui des bailleurs de fonds internationaux. Cette annonce ...

The Great Famine, which took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852, is something many of us learned about to some degree in school. It was a tale with all the makings of a great and terrible story ...