Ghana stands out in west Africa as a nation that hasn’t experienced terrorist attacks. Its proactive, multi-faceted ...

Despite ongoing diplomatic friction with Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday, ...

Burkina Faso has earned the distinction of being the hottest country on Earth, according to data from the World Bank Group.

Russia is cited as the main threat, as the blue, white, and red tricolore is lowered across the continent. Mr. Brooke has ...

A court in Mali on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Barrick Mining to release four employees arrested last November, judge Samba ...

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 ...

The African Union (AU) has appointed Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye as its special envoy to the crisis-ridden ...

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

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

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