The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has recommended the activation of the ECOWAS Standby Force amid growing insecurity in the region ...

A boat that authorities believe contained 11 dead people from the African nation of Mali was found Monday on a Caribbean ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger — each now led by a junta — left in January, causing the biggest split to the body since its ...

Robert Fowler says it would take 'a very large and serious effort to eradicate' Islamic terrorism groups in West Africa, which U.S. military officials warn could attack America.

Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar has voiced confidence that Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger,  the three Sahel nations that recently ...

The Nigerian government has said it is hopeful that Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger will rejoin the Economic Community of West ...

Gen. Michael Langley of the Marine Corps and head of the U.S. Africa Command said Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a ...

An interview with Winfried Schäfer, by Ben McFadyean for WFi at the Unity Cup at the Gtech Community Stadium, London.You have ...

The U.S. military’s top general in Africa said terrorist factions in the Sahel region have increased their presence so much in the past three years that they soon may be able to launch attacks ...

Attacks by Islamic militants are surging in western Africa, where the U.S. is struggling to track terrorist movements in the ...

Police said the boat measured 45 feet long, 12 feet wide and 6 feet deep, and it was found grounded in the area.

In a strategic move to enhance cross-border remittance services in West Africa, TerraPay, a global money movement company, has partnered with Wave Mobile Money, one of the country's leading mobile ...