The escalating conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo will dominate an African Union summit opening Saturday, with the DRC ...

Stakeholders assert that peace in the troubled Bawku township must go hand-in-hand with economic development after decades of ...

A dramatic escalation of the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and swingeing US humanitarian aid cuts are ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and ...

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

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that the official withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) raises concerns over access to ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having ...

For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, secured a rare interview with a leader of JNIM, ...

The Sahel countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger in recent ... according to data from the U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, or ACLED. JNIM, the Sahelian branch of al ...

Mali and Burkina Faso criticised Ecowas' "inhuman ... in the eyes of its citizens look even more like a loser in this conflict." On Tuesday, some people in the three departing countries' capitals ...