The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

Armed assailants in western Niger killed at least 10 soldiers in an ambush on a military unit that had been sent to hunt cattle rustlers in ...

As part of Nigeria’s push to increase access to electricity for its citizens, President Tinubu at the summit listed some of ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso ...

That Nigeria has this huge number of people without access to electricity is down to several systemic challenges bedevilling ...

The French military base in Abidjan will officially be handed over to Ivory Coast on February 20 during a ceremony attended ...

France is preparing to hand Côte d'Ivoire back its only military base in the country in a ceremony on 20 February, further ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request in 2013, France has given up most of its military footprint across west ...

West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries formally quit the group, forming their own alliance and weakening the bloc's standing and ...

France will hand back to Ivory Coast its only military base in the west African country in a ceremony on February 20, sources with knowledge of the talks told AFP on Thursday. Ivory Coast President ...