Security analysts are divided. Vladimir Antwi-Danso called it unprecedented for a visiting head of state to carry a firearm ...

Several African nations have expelled French troops, signaling a significant decline in the former colonial power’s influence ...

Their loved ones were slaughtered by extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes ...

The law that could see 2015 coup plotters pardoned might set a dangerous precedent, while the current president has already ...

Francis Ahovi, a security analyst and Executive Secretary of Global Security for Africa Research and Good Governance ...

Burkina Faso's military leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore, sparked concern when he attended Tuesday's inauguration of Ghana's ...

Benin's military says that militants inflicted heavy losses on the country's armed forces during an attack this week on a ...

Burkina Faso's President Ibrahim Traoré was given a rousing welcome when he mounted the stage to congratulate Ghana's newly ...

Twenty-eight soldiers died in an attack in northern Benin, a small West African nation increasingly witnessing violence attributed to jihadists based in neighbouring countries, a security source told ...

African governments have criticized a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he said that some leaders showed ...

Benin forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack near the border with insurgency-hit Niger and Burkina Faso, authorities ...

The three countries of the AES are set to leave ECOWAS. The existential shock could lead to a rejuvenation of the West ...