Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso no longer orient themselves towards France or Western business interests. As demand for raw ...

The Sahel region covers 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal. Niger also ended an agreement to keep about 1,000 US troops ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

Morocco’s strategic role in promoting stability in the Sahel is central to tackling transnational threats, with initiatives ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannah in the south. It is characterised by ...

Doha - A leading British defense and security think tank has pointed to Morocco’s growing strategic role in promoting stability across the Sahel region, ...

Emboldened by fleeting international counterterrorism support, non-state actors have held Sahel countries hostage, quite literally, threatening the long-term viability of the Westphalian concept ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the ...

Within ECOWAS, there’s an institution known as the Community Court of Justice. Since 2005, this Court has had jurisdiction to ...

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, Niger's defence chief said on state television.