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

West Africa observers are also concerned the withdrawal will worsen ... Ecowas will lose 76 million of its 446 million people ...

A new generation of Sierra Leoneans is eager to show visitors that the nation's civil war is long gone and reintroduce one of ...

Police in St. Kitts and Nevis are launching an investigation after the local coast guard found a partially-submerged vessel ...

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried ...

Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and ...

Nujoma was on the commanding heights of Namibia’s liberation struggle for over half a century. He decided to retire as ...

Having grown up in the west African country of Benin, when two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou immigrated to the US in 1990 to pursue his acting dreams, he felt a pain he could not ...

It fosters conditions that make young people susceptible to recruitment ... the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) can explore diverse strategies with military, political and ...

Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and the financing of terrorism, said global police body Interpol on Thursday.