Mali is preparing to activate its long-dormant sovereign investment fund. The country is drawing on Burkina Faso’s experience to guide the process. A delegation from Burkina Faso will share its model ...

National U-20 Women’s Handball coach, Shittu Agboola, has lamented the non-release of one of his star players, Taiwo ...

Crowd estimates at a rally in support of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen in Paris on April 6 range between 7,000 and 15 ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

Despite the bitter exit of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from ECOWAS and their formation of the rival AES, the destinies of the two blocs remain deeply intertwined.The split between the Economic ...

Fewer than half of young citizens expect things to get better in the near future.Key findings Almost half (47%) of Beninese youth (aged 18-35) have secondary or post-secondary education, compared to ...

A MAJORITY of the over 400 individuals rescued from boats in distress in the international waters in recent days are African. Those rescued by Emergency’s search and rescue ship, Life Support, are ...

While Hausa is the predominant language spoken in Niger, French has held official status since the nation gained independence ...

Burkina Faso raised 40.35 billion CFA ($67 million) in a recent bond auction but had to accept high interest rates. • Investor confidence is shaken following a government request for commercial banks ...

But his spirit lives on in Burkina Faso’s latest military ruler, Ibrahim Traoré, an army captain who took power in a coup in ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has slashed $51 million from the U.S. African Development Foundation and revealed the shocking initiatives receiving the money. The mission to […] ...

"I truly commend the initiative of the WAEMU Ombudsmen Association to organize this roundtable on resource mobilization," ...