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.

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Lartey, Ghana’s Special Envoy to the Sahelian States, has lauded the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) ...

Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalise on record-high gold prices to ...

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An attack by Islamic militants on military posts in northern Benin last week left at least 54 soldiers dead, the West African country's government said.

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has initiated plans to relocate its institutions and agencies from ...

Once the largest country in Africa, Sudan was divided into two distinct regions: the predominantly Arab-Muslim north and the ...

By Ben Aris in Belrin Moscow’s expanding presence in Africa has largely unfolded in silence, but the shift it represents is ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has finalized plans to relocate its institutions and agencies currently based in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, following the formal withdrawal ...