JEDDAH, 8th March, 2017 (WAM) -- The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, has strongly condemned the recent terrorist attack perpetrated against a military base on the border between Mali and ...

West African political bloc ECOWAS said Wednesday that plans to establish a long-awaited “regional counter-terrorism force” ...

The latest move, which involves the closure of a Beninese customs checkpoint along the water corridor, has disrupted the flow of goods traditionally ferried between rural communities in southwestern ...

The military rulers of Burkina Faso have turned to a man once known as “Africa’s Che Guevara” as a way to rally a country ...

Al-Qaeda Affiliate Claims Killing 200 Soldiers in Burkina Faso | Firstpost Africa | N18G An al-Qaeda-linked group has claimed ...

Benin's Pendjari Biosphere Reserve, also called Pendjari National Park, and its surroundings have been targeted by non-state armed groups since 2019.

Ibrahim Traoré, a Burkinabé military officer, became Burkina Faso's interim president in September 2022 after leading a coup ...

Analysis - The AES-ECOWAS split has sparked pragmatic cooperation based on strategic interests between neighbouring countries.

Militant Islamist violence in the Sahel continues to shift southward and westward, putting ever more pressure on population centers in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger—as well as on their coastal West ...

"In addition to defense and security, there is another important sphere, namely, science and education. We would like Russia to" teach science to young Burkinabes "so that we can develop our own ...