About 20 worshippers were also injured in the attack carried out last Friday by assailants from the so-called Islamic State ...

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, was on Wednesday sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five years under a new charter that replaces the West African nation’s ...

Ostensibly meant to foster greater cooperation between Francophone countries, the three countries allege that the ...

The junta-run country quit the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, an international group of French-speaking ...

As French-speaking countries celebrate International Francophone Day, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have this week announced ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An attack by a jihadi group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step.

Niger expelled three Chinese oil executives in a dispute over disparities between the salaries of expatriate staff and ...

In separate communications, the military governments in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso announced their withdrawals from the ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Tuesday condemned the recent attack on a mosque in Kokorou village, ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso are now all ruled by military juntas that have severed diplomatic ties with France and expelled French troops while building security partnerships with Russia instead.