Mali capital Bamako hosted the first edition of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) Games. Over the course of a week, more than 500 professional athletes from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger competed in ...

Morocco’s $1.3bn Atlantic Initiative aims to link Sahel nations to the ocean via Western Sahara, despite coups, rivalries, ...

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

Hausa, which is spoken by almost 50 percent of the population, has been named the official language of Niger, replacing ...

Mali and Russia have signed a raft of new agreements aimed at expanding bilateral trade and intensifying economic ...

A nuclear co-operation agreement was signed between Mali and Russia during a five-day official visit to Russia by Mali’s ...

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has assumed the chairmanship of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and ...

What’s the connection between roads and conflict in west Africa? This may seem like an odd question. But a study we conducted ...

Mali and Russia have signed a series of agreements aimed at expanding mutual trade and strengthening economic ties. Among them is a pledge for greater cooperation on nuclear energy, according to ...

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio was on Sunday elected Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States ...

Leaders from the west African bloc ECOWAS on Sunday admitted during talks in the Nigerian capital that the region was in ...