Extremists have killed dozens of soldiers in an attack on a military base in Mali. That's according to civil society and military sources. A civil society activist says Sunday's attack ...

A cross-border project aimed at enhancing transboundary wildlife conservation and improving community livelihoods across parts of Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso has officially been launched ...

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has called for the activation of the ECOWAS Standby Force amid ...

The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has recommended the activation of the ECOWAS Standby ...

A survey of Togolese citizens recently looked into perceptions of their government's handling of the terrorist threat in the ...

and was killed four years later in another coup that put Burkina Faso back in France's political orbit until Traoré's seizure of power. Ghanaian security analyst Prof Kwesi Aning, who previously ...

In this Feb. 18, 2020 photo, Burkina Faso paratroopers are being trained at the U.S. military-led annual Flintlock counterterrorism exercise in West Africa. (AP Photo/Cheikh A.T Sy) United States ...

Historically, Nigeria played a leading role in restoring peace and security on the continent. It did this during the first ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, 34 years old, became the provisional head of Burkina Faso’s government after a military coup in ...

Although things remain at the level of a cold war or what is known as diplomatic froideur, there is no guarantee that the ...

Across townships, cities, markets and digital feeds in Africa, the name of Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore ...

Former Ghanaian Member of Parliament, Ras Mubarak, has called into question the effectiveness of Africa’s democratic systems, ...