Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, says the recent withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali from ECOWAS has placed more burden on the Nigerian military.Abubakar said this at the opening of the First ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

Following the withdrawal of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso from ECOWAS, there are now fewer countries that Nigerian passport ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who has led the country since a 2022 coup, want to reduce reliance on foreign aid and harness ...

China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held ...

The Vatican’s Secretary of State Pietro Cardinal Parolin emphasised that military action must respect human rights during a ...

For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.Tens of thousands of people have ...

Mali's military government says it is investigating allegations that soldiers "coldly executed" at least 24 civilians in the ...

Canadian miner Barrick Gold has signed a new agreement with the Malian government to end an almost two-year-old dispute over ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the interim leader of Burkina Faso, rose to power in September 2022 after leading a coup against ...

African countries have had nine successful military coups since 2020. In west and central Africa, there have been at least 10 ...