Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

"What is evident is that Benin is now at war--a war waged by French imperialism through proxy jihadist forces," argues Damien Zinsou Degbe of Benin's Council of Patriotic Youth, which has organized ...

China stands a good chance of taking advantage of the dwindling western presence in the Sahel region of west Africa.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

Burkina Faso is leaving the West African regional bloc ECOWAS to join counterterrorism forces with Niger and Mali. The junta ...

En route to the interview in Gao, northern Mali, in April 2021 ... The Sahel countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger in ...

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

Northern-Ireland based cement producer Cemcor said this week ... a deal to build a 900t/day clay calcination plant for Ciments de l'Afrique (CIMAF) in Burkina Faso, and Holcim Česko said it was going ...

Ansaroul Islam, a jihadist group formed in 2016 in Burkina Faso and with close links to militants in Mali has carried out many of the attacks in and around northern Soum province in the Sahel region.

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Wednesday officially recognized the exit of three of its former members: Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic. The trio’s exit became ...

say their operations in Burkina Faso are unaffected after the country’s president said some mining licences may be revoked. President Ibrahim Traoré made the comments in a... You've reached your limit ...