Bank loans in Niger fell 18.2% in 2024, the steepest decline in WAEMU. Long-term loans dropped 18.6%, while short-term loans rose 28.1%. Niger posted the highest rate of bad loans in the union at 26.8 ...

A week after a jihadist attack on a military camp in central Mali, hundreds of civilians continue to flee the town of ...

The biggest issues, however, are challenges to and questions over the integrity of the Economic Community of West African States itself after Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger quit the bloc in January ...

Wagner, a feared Russian mercenary group, is being replaced on the continent by another Russian paramilitary, experts say – ...

However, it remains present in a new guise—as the African Corps. The Russian Federation has decided to end its „special ...

Under President Donald Trump the United States has reset relations with west Africa's military leaders on a mutual ...

According to historians, Mansa Musa, an African man, possessed more wealth than any other individual on Earth.

A close aide to the head of jihadist group Boko Haram on Friday denied Nigerien army claims that he he had been killed in a ...

Niger's army said its soldiers killed a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, but experts cast ...