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

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

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.

Ghana has chalked an unenviable position in the 2025 World Happiness Report after it emerged that the West African country ...

Again, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have boycotted the ECOWAS Defence Chiefs meeting, continuing their disengagement from ...

Since President Bola Tinubu clamped the state of emergency on Rivers State, suspending for six months Governor Sim Fubara, his ...

Authorities detained two journalists in Burkina Faso on Monday after the media body to which they belong denounced attacks on freedom of expression under the country's military rulers, the association ...

Mali announced its withdrawal from the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) on Tuesday, following similar ...

Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step.

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.

Islamist militants killed at least 44 civilians and severely injured 13 others during an attack on a mosque in southwest Niger on Friday, the country's defence ministry said. The attack occurred ...