The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

Niger, along with its neighbors Burkina Faso ... the ruling juntas have expelled French forces and turned to Russia’s mercenary units for security assistance. The three countries have vowed ...

In response, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso announced their exit last January and accused ECOWAS of failing to safeguard member states and of aligning too closely with foreign powers.

The West may like to convince itself that it is, in the words of one American diplomat, ‘strangling the Russian foreign ...

People waved flags from Russia, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali at a rally to fete the withdrawal of the three Sahelian nations from the Economic Community of West ...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Monday that the U.S.-Russia relations are on the verge of a major breakdown. Despite President Trump claiming that he spoke with Russian ...

Since the coup, Niger's military rulers have turned their back on former colonial power France and forged ties with fellow juntas in Burkina Faso and Mali, as well as with Russia. It has also ...

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

In Niger, thousands of people led by members of ... Some protesters also carried flags of the three Sahel countries or that of Russia. "To cut the cord of imperialism... this will not be done ...