While you were sleeping, global agencies reported the following events overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. Nineteen ...

The exit of military-led Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) is seen to ...

Niger’s defense minister says 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 to face rising extr ...

Earlier this month, soldiers swooped by helicopter into a vast mining complex in western Mali and made away with three tonnes of gold -- all done on the orders of the military government. In the same ...

Four Moroccan truck drivers were kidnapped while transporting goods from Morocco to Niger and were later released in Niger.

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said ...

West African leaders considered military intervention to stop Niger from falling under the sway of a junta following a coup.

Junta-led allies Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger on Thursday announced that their own common ... the military leaders in the three west African countries have teamed up to form the Confederation of Sahel ...

A combination of population explosion, failure of governance and endemic poverty creates a perfect breeding ground for a ...

The Austrian foreign ministry says a female citizen has been taken by unknown assailants in the military-ran West African ...

East African countries have plenty to offer Western miners in the coming years, notably the relative absence of strongarm ...

Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has appointed a former national security chief as envoy to the alliance formed by Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, signalling his administration's intention to mend ...