The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

Niger, along with its neighbors Burkina Faso and Mali, has for over a decade battled an insurgency ... But the security ...

Satellite imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) showed desert dust moving north across the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, February 3. “A plume of dust from the ...

After leaving ECOWAS, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso created their own alliance known as the Alliance of Sahel States, or AES, named after the vast southern fringe of the Sahara Desert region.