Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have imposed a 0.5% levy on imports, funding their breakaway union and marking a significant ...

Ostensibly meant to foster greater cooperation between Francophone countries, the three countries allege that the OIF has become "a remote-controlled political instrument" operated from Paris to suit ...

Dictatorship Unavoidable? | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G Niger is heading down an all-to-familiar path. The country saw a ...

Burkina Faso's ruling military junta has arrested three prominent journalists, escalating its crackdown on media freedom in ...

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has been sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five ...

Niger was, however, suspended from the OIF in December 2023, following its coup d'état. Burkina Faso and Mali were also ...

Since then Niger has left the bloc alongside Mali and Burkina Faso, in protest of harsh sanctions which the bloc announced to force a return to democracy in Niger. Critics say Niger's junta has ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

The junta-run country quit the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, an international group of French-speaking ...

Like military rulers in Mali and Burkina Faso, Niger authorities also went on to kick out French and other European forces, and left the West African economic group, Ecowas. Mali, Niger and ...

As French-speaking countries celebrate International Francophone Day, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have this week announced ...