The Economic Community of West African States is set to hold a meeting later this month to address the 0.5 per cent import ...

West African states have joined forces to enhance competition and improve market efficiency, in a move to strengthen regional integration.

Bishir Dauda, a Nigerian activist, has embarked on a 50-day celebration road trip across West Africa to mark the 50th ...

The volcanic island of Bioko, about 160 kilometers, or 100 miles, northwest of mainland Equatorial Guinea, is carpeted in ...

Implications for global geopolitics Russia’s increasing presence in the Sahel has broader implications for global geopolitics. Russia’s influence in the Sahel reflects a broader trend of African ...

Niger's junta said Tuesday it had freed around 50 people, including ministers from the government it toppled in July 2023, in ...

The levy, which took effect last Friday, applies to all goods from ECOWAS member states entering any of the three nations, except for humanitarian aid.

Since January 2025 when Niger, Niger and Burkina Faso and Mali officially withdrew their membership of the Economic ...

In recent years, the Sahel region has been shaken by a series of coups and shifts in governance that have significantly ...

The goal of the African Continental Free Trade Area is to make Africa a single market with no trade restrictions between ...

The military governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5 percent levy on imported goods from Nigeria ...

Further consolidating their breakaway from the regional economic bloc earlier in the year, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger ...