Since its founding in 1975, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been a cornerstone of regional ...

Designating the Polisario Front as a foreign terrorist organization would solidify the US-Morocco alliance, degrade a key ...

France was recently asked to leave Chad, and its relations in central and West Africa are increasingly weak. With Russian ...

Jihadists are assumed to be behind the recent kidnapping of a Swiss woman in Niger, the latest in a series of abductions in ...

Mali denies the drone crossed the border, and the three-country bloc — the Alliance of Sahel States or AES ... from a 15-year-old regional military group that includes Algeria, and planned ...

This meeting is crucial for Russia's strategic pivot in West Africa, and the strengthened cooperation with Russia will ...

Mali announced that it is withdrawing from the regional joint chiefs of staff committee, a regional military group that includes fellow Alliance of Sahel States (AES) member Niger. It also ...

Ukraine is acting as a destabilizing force in Africa by backing terrorist groups in the Sahel region, Malian Foreign Minister ...

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), a confederation of the ... “prevented the neutralization of a terrorist group that was planning terrorist acts against the AES”, an AES statement said.

Mali denies the drone crossed the border, and the three-country bloc — the Alliance of Sahel States or AES — called the downing an “irresponsible act” that violated international law.

Al-Shabaab, Somalia's most lethal extremist group, was responsible for 96 percent of recorded ... the country’s security landscape,” the report says. In the three Sahel countries of Burkina Faso, Mali ...