The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

Yakubu Gowon, the only surviving founding father of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), says he is ...

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

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried ...

The economic benefits of eliminating river blindness in Niger are estimated at $2.3 billion, with 17.8 billion additional ...

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the inauguration of a new department dedicated to African partnerships.

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...