BCEAO grants extra time for payment service providers to get licensed by August 31, 2025 Only licensed firms will be allowed to operate from September 1 across the WAEMU region Fintechs are the main ...

Novel in Africa at the time, ECOWAS's objective was clear and laudable: to foster economic integration.West African leaders converged on Lagos on 28 May to commemorate the golden jubilee of the ...

An Al Qaeda-linked rebel group active in West Africa's Sahel region has claimed responsibility for an attack on a military base in Mali on Sunday that two sources said had killed more than 30 soldiers ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Shares in Eramet fell sharply on Monday after Gabon announced an export ban on unrefined manganese from 2029, potentially upending the French mining group's massive export-orientated ...

General Michael Langley, has raised alarms over the growing efforts of extremist groups and terrorists in the Sahel region seeking to expand their operations to West Africa’s coastline. In a press ...

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), which was set up to promote trade and good governance across ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger — each now led by a junta — left in January, causing the biggest split to the body since its ...

A survey of Togolese citizens recently looked into perceptions of their government’s handling of the terrorist threat in the ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar has voiced confidence that Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger,  the three Sahel nations that recently ...

The Nigerian government has said it is hopeful that Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger will rejoin the Economic Community of West ...

Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley described the Sahel region, which includes Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, as “the epicenter ...

Gen. Michael Langley of the Marine Corps and head of the U.S. Africa Command said Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a ...