West Africa

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso had first announced their decision to leave ECOWAS in early 2024, following months of tension...

Niger has suspended its participation in the Multinational Joint Task Force, and Chad has threatened to withdraw.

Among other things, the project plans to create 130 high flow-rate boreholes and pumping stations for a cumulative flow of...

The overall conduct of the election earned the Electoral Commission of Ghana praise from local and international observers.

While Mr Mahama polled about 6.3 million votes, his opponent and incumbent vice president, Mahamadu Bawumia, polled 4.5 million votes.

As Ghanaians head to the polls to elect the head of the Cocoa-rich West African country on Saturday, the state...

The faces of 13 presidential candidates are on the ballot papers, one of them is deceased, but only two are...

Other members of the delegation include former Burkinabe Prime Minister and President of the ECOWAS, Kadre Ouedraogo.

The court held that Togo violated the right of Mr Menveinoyou to a fair and timely appeal.

“We are relieved that President Barrow responded to appeals from local media representatives, the National Human Rights Commission..."

With elections in December, widespread perceptions of political bias in Ghana's Supreme Court threaten the democratic process.

In June, Russia said it was sending additional military supplies and instructors to Burkina Faso to help the West African...

ECOWAS should use its special summit on regional integration in 2025 to reconsider its approach to managing coups.

Political interests must be set aside to prevent illegal mining from devastating the country’s forests, farmland and water system.

Mr Traore vowed to do better than his predecessors when he seized power in September 2022, the second coup in...

This development further signalled the deterioration of relations between ECOWAS and three estranged Sahelian nations.

Togo’s successive crises have been driven by conflicts relating to presidential term limits and democratic power transfers.

He said the summit was necessitated by the challenges of development and the rapidly changing geo-strategic and geo-political environment.

Mr Asante said he was aware that the parliament had been engaging high-level officials of those states through its members...

“The changes to Niger’s cybercrime law are a blow to the media community and a very disappointing step backwards for...

"The provisional report shows 11 victims dead and identified, several others not yet identified and seven injured noted and taken...

The unregulated timber logging economy is central to extremists' governance strategies and regional infiltration.

US implementation of the withdrawal begins a shift in strategy amid regional challenges.

Ahead of Ghana's December 2024 elections, heightened mistrust in state institutions and unresolved tensions threaten to disrupt the polls.

Political divisions over limiting presidential power and terms in office have brought the process to a standstill.