DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, secured a rare interview ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online claiming Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore has officially banned ...

The junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region, Niger's defense minister said Wednesday, to face ...

President Ibrahim Traoré made the announcement , saying the wigs, which come from British and French traditions, no longer ...

The “imazighen”, an indigenous population of North Africa, celebrate between2 and 14 the Berber New Year, a marked ancestral ...

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has just announced its biennial list of 25 cultural heritage sites that are under threat – and for the first time ever, it’s gone lunar. The preservation ...

Burkina Faso has now joined countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia in taking steps to ban the usage of wigs.

A Catholic charity has made it possible for a diocese in Burkina Faso to provide six months' basic food supply to impoverished IDPs (internally displaced persons). Bishop Joseph Sama of Nouna has ...

Cotonou: An Al Qaeda-linked militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack in northern Benin near the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger that killed at least 28 troops this week.

A year later the mission was extended to take in other countries in the region, including Niger and Burkina Faso. "We were right [to deploy]. I think someone forgot to say thank you. It's ok it ...