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ABUJA - Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have a six-month grace period after their scheduled exit from West Africa's main political and...

DAKAR - Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers. They killed dozens of...

OUAGADOUGOU - One of the worst massacres in Burkina Faso's history has provoked a fierce public outcry from victims' relatives and...

OUAGADOUGOU - A woman who survived the massacre of hundreds of villagers in central Burkina Faso described the horror of searching...

ABUJA - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Sunday the region risked disintegration and worsening insecurity...

NIAMEY - Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, three military-led West African states, signed a confederation treaty on Saturday, underscoring...

GABORONE - The top U.S. general is making a rare trip to Africa to discuss ways to preserve some of the U.S. presence in West Africa...

N'DJAMENA -Chad deployed dozens of security forces in the capital amid rising tensions on Monday as polls closed and vote counting began...

N'DJAMENA - Chad will hold presidential elections on Monday, making it the first in a string of coup-hit states across Central and West...

DAKAR - Senegal's once jailed opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye was sworn in on Tuesday as the West African nation's fifth...

CAIRO - The Islamic State on Saturday claimed responsibility for an attack on Niger's army that it said had killed 30 soldiers on...