An attack by armed men in western Niger killed 12 soldiers, the army said Saturday, in a border area that has long been a hotbed of extremist violence. The “surprise offensive” was launched Friday ...

Abdou Aziz Chehou, the group’s national coordinator, told The Associated Press on Thursday that 1,845 migrants without legal ...

Algeria is rounding up migrants and dumping them across the border with Niger, according to a regional migrant rights group ...

Qaida, claimed responsibility for the attack and said it killed 70 soldiers, according to the SITE Intelligence Group ...

COTONOU, Benin (AP) — 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. Authorities had ...

Ghana stands ready to serve as a bridge to help re-knit the fabric of West African unity, President John Dramani Mahama, has ...

By Paul Mamattah The Ambassador for Universal Peace Federation, Amb. Chief Oyeyemisola Fatuyi FIIM, CPI, has condemned the United States’ alleged plans to militarily intervene in Burkina Faso, warning ...

Burkina Faso’s military government on Monday announced it had thwarted what it described as a “major plot” aimed at plunging ...

Ghana is offering 1,000 scholarships to tertiary students from across the ECOWAS sub-region to study in the nation’s universities, ...

Burkina Faso’s interim president, Captain Ibrahim Traore, has granted amnesty to 21 soldiers who were convicted nearly a ...

Al-Qaida affiliate JNIM said it killed 70 soldiers in raids on two military posts in north Benin, the biggest death count claimed by jihadists in the country in over a decade of activity in West ...