A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

African countries are working together to create larger markets and benefit from economies of scale. In the energy sector, ...

For all the latest headlines ... for talks between ECOWAS and the three countries expires in July, said Babacar Ndiaye, a political analyst at the West Africa–focused Wathi think tank.

This steely new language was a win in America’s long quest to get its allies to show more solidarity with Taiwan. Yet in the ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having served notice a year ago, raising concerns over access to justice for the ...

The country's border security, particularly in the North, remains weak, allowing individuals from neighboring countries such ...

By Kingsley MOGHALUStrengthening the trade between African countries is a necessary first step toward equipping the continent to engage with the world economy on its own terms. For too long, Africa ...

The Health, Development and Anti-Malaria Association (HDAMA) announced that it provided various life-saving medicines, medical equipment,and other health servicessupport to more than 600 health ...

That a bank manager, of all people, could be fooled on a scale sufficient to bring down a bank is a sign of how sophisticated ...

Sam Nujoma was said to have ‘marshalled the Namibian people during the darkest hours of our liberation struggle’.

US president Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the United States should “take back” the Panama Canal and that it ...

US President Donald Trump's 90-day freeze on US foreign aid and overhaul of the US Agency for International Development ...