Security analysts are divided. Vladimir Antwi-Danso called it unprecedented for a visiting head of state to carry a firearm ...

Their loved ones were slaughtered by extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes ...

Burkina Faso's military leader Capt Ibrahim Traore attracted attention when he attended Tuesday's inauguration of Ghana's ...

Going back to the days of the Cold War, many Africans studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia. They’re now among ...

Burkina Faso's President Ibrahim Traoré was given a rousing welcome when he mounted the stage to congratulate Ghana's newly ...

Benin's military says that militants inflicted heavy losses on the country's armed forces during an attack this week on a ...

The law that could see 2015 coup plotters pardoned might set a dangerous precedent, while the current president has already ...

Attacks in northern Benin have increased in recent years with authorities accusing members of the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda ...

Leaders of the west African regional grouping Ecowas approved the long-awaited withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso ...

Twenty-eight soldiers died in an attack in northern Benin, a small West African nation increasingly witnessing violence attributed to jihadists based in neighbouring countries, a security source told ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Their loved ones were slaughtered by Islamic extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes destroyed. Exhausted and ...