(Reuters) -Burkina Faso plans to take control of more foreign-owned industrial mines, its prime minister said, as the West ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso responded by announcing their withdrawal from the economic bloc, formalized in January this year ...

Morocco announced a trade initiative to facilitate Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger's access to the Atlantic Ocean using Moroccan ...

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Mali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has won the backing of key political allies to be declared president for the next ...

Tension is mounting after an attempted coup in Burkina Faso. Officials say a plot to overthrow Capt Ibrahim Traoré has been foiled.

Foreign ministers of military-ruled Sahel states of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger said on Monday they endorse an initiative ...

The challenge will be translating the country’s rich mineral resources and promising economy into stability and development.

Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalise on record-high gold prices to ...

Burkina Faso’s military govt says it has foiled a “coup plot” to overthrow Ibrahim Traoré, junta leader, accusing soldiers of ...

Burkina Faso's military junta claimed Monday to have foiled a "major plot in the making" aimed at "sowing total chaos", ...

Celebrations marking 50 years of the Economic Community of West African States – known as Ecowas – began in Ghana this week, ...