A commission in junta-led Niger has recommended a five-year transition timeframe back to civilian rule. Back in 2023 when the military seized power, the junta suggested three years for the transition, ...

Niger's National Conference has submitted a proposal to return the country to non-military rule after a five-year transition ...

An apparent Islamist armed group attacked a civilian convoy escorted by Malian armed forces and allied militias in ...

A national committee to chart Niger’s future has proposed that the junta-ruled country return to civilian administration in five years under new rules that strictly limit the number of political ...

On Saturday 15 February 2025, the first official presentation of the new and 40th book by the French-Cameroonian ...

France said on Thursday it would keep 80 military personnel in Ivory Coast largely for training purposes, as it handed over control of a military base in the commercial capital amid a scaling back of ...

Niger's junta will stay in power for at least half a decade more if it accepts a plan presented on Thursday, which does not ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led against Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Damiba in September 2022. The ...

Barrick Gold has signed a new agreement with the Malian Government, bringing an end to a dispute that has lingered for nearly ...

Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country on Thursday as the majority of French forces departed from countries across West Africa. Analysts have ...

In military junta-led Niger, a commission recommended a five-year transition to democratic rule. The junta's initial ...

Canadian miner Barrick Gold has signed a new agreement with the Malian government to end an almost two-year-old dispute over ...