For almost 30 years, the Media Foundation for West Africa has supported watchdog journalism and press freedom in both ...

Mali’s armed forces and the allied Russia-backed Wagner Group have committed dozens of summary executions and enforced disappearances of ethnic Fulani men since January 2025.

Luc Pagbelguem, a journalist with the private television station BF1, and Boukari Ouoba, vice-president of the Burkina ...

Dutch developer Gutami Holding has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement with Burkina Faso’s national utility to supply ...

At home, Togo has prioritized national security by increasing its defense budget from 8.7 percent of total government spending in 2017 to 17.5 percent in 2022 — an investment aimed at modernizing our ...

When Amadou Traoré was posted to an army base in western Mali, his family could take comfort that the soldier was far away ...

France on Thursday formally handed back its last two military bases in Senegal, leaving Paris with no permanent army camps in ...

At dawn on June 1, gunfire shattered the stillness of Mali's military base in Boulkessi. Waves of jihadist insurgents from an ...

Mopti Region, MaliA recent surge of attacks by an al Qaeda-linked group across Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger signals its ...

President John Dramani Mahama has announced plans for the construction of a major road infrastructure project in the Ashanti ...

If you believe the viral videos online, R. Kelly and Pope Leo XIV agree on one thing -- that Burkina Faso's junta chief, ...

Cattle rustling is a profitable revenue stream for insurgents and threatens the stability of the West African region.