A leader of the West African regional bloc says coups and attempted coups have left the region in a state of emergency.

AFRAA said the focus for 2026 will shift to the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESAF) airspace to conclude trials and achieve a similar FRA implementation.

West Africa awoke to fresh tremors on December 7, 2025, when a group of soldiers in Benin Republic briefly seized the ...

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

The Associated Press has spoken to more than 30 refugees from Mali who say they witnessed beheadings, rapes and other abuses ...

Maritime security firm Vanguard says a Portuguese-flagged gas tanker, the CGAS Saturn, was attacked several miles west of ...

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ECOWAS delegation has arrived in Guinea-Bissau on Monday, as the military government which seized power in the country banned all demonstrations, strikes and activities regarded as threat to peace and ...

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has lamented the food insecurity bedevilling the West African sub-region.Speaking at the opening ceremony of the validation of the ECOWAS ...

The Indian Ocean must be understood not as a boundary, but as a shared inheritance, a commons that anchors Africa’s economic emancipation and geopolitical autonomy. Anything less is a betrayal of ...

A rotating team of Chinese doctors helps make it one of the best. In a country that has long depended on health aid from ...