West Africa

At least six people were killed in a failed attempt to overthrow Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, state radio said...

Mali has defaulted on bonds worth 2.7 billion CFA francs ($4.67 million), its finance ministry said on Wednesday, blaming sanctions...

 The European Union has agreed to impose travel bans and asset freezes on five members of Mali's junta after the...

France is reviewing its military presence in Mali following the expulsion of the French ambassador by the junta which seized...

A day after the African Union joined regional bloc Ecowas in suspending Burkina Faso as member over last week's coup,...

Recent upheavals turning West Africa's political landscape on its head pose a direct challenge on the credibility of Ecowas, a...

Major African firms have invested in Africa in order to revive the aviation sector. This is the case of Ethiopian...

European states combating terrorists in Mali will try to find a way to keep their mission going, but there are...

A team from the West African regional bloc Ecowas will be in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, on Monday to assess...

Burkina Faso's new strongman, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has had first-hand experience of the brutal militant insurgency that he cites...