By Anait Miridzhanian DAKAR (Reuters) -At dawn on June 1, gunfire shattered the stillness of Mali's military base in ...

Growth in the 15 member states that make up the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, is likely to inch down ...

Sovereign risk may scare off some investors but don't get it twisted, West Africa could be the most exciting place ... Read ...

Legislation designating the Polisario Front as a foreign terrorist organization would send a strong signal as the regional ...

The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not take ...

Demand for coffee is growing globally - but despite much of it being grown on the continent, very little is roasted locally ...

France will on Thursday formally hand back its last military bases in Senegal, leaving the French army with no permanent ...

Trump discussed migration with the leaders of Liberia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Gabon, including the need for ...

West Africa Economic Summit (WAES) was more than another policy meeting; it was a moment of reckoning. For decades, West ...

General Assimi Goïta, Mali's junta leader, has signed a controversial law granting himself a five-year presidential mandate -- renewable indefinitely and without election -- sparking widespread ...

The U.N.'s food agency says it will suspend various food and nutritional assistance in vulnerable countries across West and ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting five West African leaders on Wednesday for a “multilateral lunch” at ...