Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson traveled to the port city of Dakhla, on the West African coast, to launch his budget airline’s ...

West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three countries formally quit the group ...

Home to one of the most diverse and vibrant people in the world, this landlocked country covers nearly 500,000 square miles ...

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

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

With terrorists' attacks still on the rise, across and around the Sahel, the continuous Sudan ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news ...

The Economic Community of West African STATES, ECOWAS has officially confirmed the withdrawal of Burkina Faso, the Republic of Mali, and the Republic of Niger from the regional bloc, effective ...

Larry Gbevlo-Lartey has been appointed to liaise with the three-nation Alliance of Sahel States (AES ... the geopolitical landscape is changing in West Africa, as the US, France, Russia and ...

NIAMEY - A joint force of 5,000 troops from military-led neighbours Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali will soon deploy in their troubled central Sahel region ... from West Africa's main political ...

roughly four times the size of France – in Africa's northwest. They lie in the region known as the Sahel, which stretches between the dry Sahara desert in the north and the more humid savannas to the ...

(AP Photo, File) DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region against ...

The Africa Corps is a Russian initiative aimed at supporting security in the Sahel region. This project continues the successful military collaboration between Mali and Russia. Previously ...