Niger State Government has ordered the immediate closure of two public secondary schools in Minna, the state capital.The State Honourable Commissioner for the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education ...

Military chiefs from the West African subregion are considering establishing an ECOWAS counter-terrorism brigade, amongst others.

NUEKPE The Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP) have been applauded for their ...

The Sahel region, long plagued by instability, terrorism, and economic marginalization, has witnessed a transformative shift with the emergence of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). The ...

Ecowas has been struggling to keep its membership intact after Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, all junta-led states, decided to ...

The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, on Wednesday, March 12th, has stated that the West African sub-region requires collective efforts from all affected countries to address security ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has launched a 5,000-member regional counterterrorism force to tackle the growing influence of jihadist groups, particularly Islamic State’s (IS) ...

The complexity of Africa’s electricity trade challenges the simplistic notion that African production is rudimentary.

Kadiatou Barry, forced to marry at 15 and move abroad, escaped her husband and returned to school for a better future. With support from the Sahel Women's Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Project ...

As the Economic Community of West African States marks its 50th anniversary, GIFT HABIB reflects on its journey from an ...

The force's activation follows a report by the Global Terrorism Index, which identified Africa's Sahel region as the global ...

The 46th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union took place in February 2025 in Addis Ababa. The ...