The son of one of Mali's top politicians says the country's ruling junta has arrested his father for criticizing the military rulers of neighboring Burkina Faso ...

A Nigerien-Ivorian journalist has been jailed in Niger over allegations he attempted to destabilise fellow junta-led Sahel nation Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast's consul to Niger said on Wednesday.

A Malian dissident was detained in the capital Bamako Wednesday under pressure from authorities in Burkina Faso, who accused him of making "extremely serious remarks" against the neighbouring ...

Niger's military junta has banned the French aid group Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, or Acted, from ...

I am sure the leaders of the Niger Delta who are about the most educated, most sophisticated, professionally accomplished, ...

An embattled leader for decades in Niger’s rough-and-tumble politics, he alternated stints in high office with prison and ...

Boko Haram insurgents killed 17 Chadian soldiers in a weekend attack on a military post that also left 96 of the assailants ...

Onyeukwu, aged 47, was arrested following a tip-off from one of the Ministry’s whistle-blower channels In Enugu State, One Anthony Onyeukwu has been ...

TO Abolaji Azeez Aleshe, popularly called BJ, kidnapping while fully armed is an easy way to make money. It is a thriving ...

Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo stated he is no longer affiliated with any political partySpeaking at a thanksgiving ...

A free expression and civic space round-up produced by IFEX's Regional Editor Reyhana Masters, based on IFEX member reports ...

Nigeria is still harvesting an abundance of bad press from the Endbadgovernance protests of August 2024, and recent events show that a long road lies ahead. On November 1, judicial proceedings aimed ...