West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a ...

"Several dozen" soldiers and civilian auxiliaries have been killed in a suspected jihadist attack in eastern Burkina Faso, ...

Disputes surrounding the schedule of presidential and parliamentary elections are fueling the struggle for power and influence in Guinea-Bissau. Efforts by ...

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger introduce a 0.5% levy on imports to fund a new union after leaving ECOWAS. The Alliance of ...

The Niger Republic has withdrawn an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa’s Lake Chad region as ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

Nigerian traders at the Niger border are expressing their concerns about officials in Niamey rejecting ECOWAS passports. They ...

Niger entrenched military rule for another five years this week when junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, who seized power in a 2023 military coup, was named president for the next five years. During ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has renovated the treatment and rehabilitation centre for people with ...

SharePresident Bola Tinubu has received a briefing from the President of Ghana, John Mahama, who undertook to tour the Sahelian States on a peace mission. Recall that the three states, comprising ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Ghanaian President, John Dramani Mahama, yesterday said the Economic Community of West ...