The Foundation for Peace Professionals (PeacePro) has strongly opposed the United States' plan to conduct airstrikes against terrorist targets across Africa, warning that foreign military ...

Power has its perks in Niger and the rules are being rewritten by those in charge. On Thursday, a national commission, representing participants to talks on the country’s transition to democratic rule ...

This week on Business Africa: budgetary crisis in Senegal, industrialization under Traoré in Burkina Faso, and untapped mining potential in Nigeria. Three major challenges for the West African economy ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led against Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Damiba in September 2022. The ...

In September, the Nigerian government made an important change to its food fortification program to date—a set of standards ...

The sociopolitical and economic conditions that led to coups in other countries in west Africa are present in Nigeria.

The cost of a daily nutritious diet in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is 110% higher than the west African region’s daily ...

Niger republic has started imposing restrictions on Nigerians traveling with Economic Community of West African State's (ECOWAS) passports.

and in Burkina Faso in 2022 was because of fears that the coup in Niger might torpedo the Trans-Saharan Gas pipeline project, ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called on the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) to establish a Combined ...

Speaking at the 38th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa on Sunday, ...

Dr Godknows Igali is a former Nigeria Ambassador to Sweden, Denmark and Norway. He is also the First Vice President of the Academy of International Affairs of Nigeria. In this interview,he speaks ...