Despite the moves by Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), West African countries, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods.

Nigerians are paying the least for petrol in West Africa, as prices in the region show massive disparity in 2025; Other countries such as Ghana, Sierra Leone, Mali, Guinea, and others pay as high ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have severed ties from a key West African bloc. Four things you need to know about what the break means for a region destabilized by coups and rising jihadist violence.

“Correlation is not causality,” the Africa Center’s Eizenga said, referring to the corresponding spike in deaths and violent events in the three countries trackers have recorded since 2021 ...

African countries have had nine successful military coups since 2020. In west and central Africa, there have been at least 10 coup attempts in the same period. Those of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso ...

That research and an earlier study in the three Liptako-Gourma countries (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger) ... Regional collaboration is also needed in response to the Lakurawa group – active since at ...

The two-week event will feature military athletes from 54 African nations, including Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, who have recently announced their exit from the Economic Community of West ...

West Africa’s divided regional bloc has asked Senegal’s President Basirou Diomaye Faye to have a dialogue with the three military junta-led member states to try to reunite the region whose ...