West Africa

If confirmed, the reported deployment is a further sign of Russian penetration into West Africa—at the expense of Western powers.

Commentary The West’s preoccupation with the wars in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean and with United States and ...

More countries announce that they're leaving the G5 Sahel security confederation amid rising jihadist attacks by al-Qaeda and ...

Move is announced on same day that high-level Russian delegation visits Niamey for talks with country’s new leadership.

Canada is speaking out against a coup d'état in Niger, as analysts fear political instability across West Africa ...

A hospital fire has killed 11 newborn babies in a neonatal ward in the Senegalese city of Tivaouane, ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Burkina Faso's army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government ...

DAKAR—Health authorities in Guinea are monitoring 155 people who may have been in contact with a confirmed case ...

PARIS—As it pays tribute Thursday to French soldiers killed in Mali and faces questions over a deadly airstrike, ...

BAMAKO, Mali—Soldiers who ousted Mali's president in a coup promised on Aug. 19 to oversee elections within a ...

PARIS—Two French special forces officers were killed Friday in a military operation in the West African nation of ...

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A US official estimates there are 3,000 active cases of Ebola in West Africa, many in small clusters ...

A top World Health Organization official says the hunt for an Ebola vaccine will produce data about whether ...

Defending their response to the deadly virus Ebola while acknowledging some serious missteps with the country’s first patient, ...

“Would you like ice in your drink?” To this, I normally say yes. But there are times when ...