Moreover, eight ECOWAS countries, largely francophone, are already members of a currency union—Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. These members of the ...

Raila Odinga has visited seven West African countries in the seven days in a bid to drum up support of his AUC chairmanship ...

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), the region's political and economic union, said the rollout will be gradual with countries meeting the laid-out criteria joining first.

West African regional group Ecowas has in principle ... Morocco's application comes after it rejoined the African Union in January. Morocco left the continental body in 1984 after it recognised ...

President Barrow, alongside other Heads of State, laid a wreath at Thiaroye cemetery to pay respect to fallen heroes. In his ...

United States President Joe Biden is visiting Angola this week on his first-ever bilateral trip to Africa as president – ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognized the killing of West African ...

The European Union says it will lend 91 million euros to Cameroon over the next three years to boost the West African country ...

The West Africans were members of the unit called “Tirailleurs Sénégalais,” a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army ...