Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and the financing of terrorism, said global police body Interpol on Thursday.

None of the men I saw at the Gaîté Lyrique looked like he was under 18 years of age. Their passports are probably at the bottom of the Mediterranean. The only woman I saw was the white activist making ...

An initiative led by the African Development Bank and World Bank is securing big money and political commitments to bring ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

The visit was about the economic relations between the two countries and the security situation in the region. On February 28 ...

A landslide has engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them. In a statement broadcast on ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported ...

The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, are officially leaving the regional economic bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday, after 50 years.The withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African ...

We provide services to Canadians visiting and living in Mali. The Embassy of Canada in Bamako is following the situation and providing consular service for Canadians in Niger. Canadians in need of ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...