[Ecowas] The Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on the contingency plan and modalities on the withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Republics of Mali and Niger from ECOWAS holds from Apri...

[Premium Times] PREMIUM TIMES reports that the three junta-led countries made their official exit from ECOWAS earlier in the year.

[allAfrica] Ecowas Deliberates Exit of Sahel States From Regional Bloc

[IMF] Washington, DC: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved today a disbursement of US$129 million (SDR 93.3 million) under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) to address the urgent needs resulting from the floods. The RCF...

[Ghanaian Times] Mali booked their place in the final of the TotalEnergies CAF Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations with a commanding 2-0 win over Burkina Faso in Tuesday's semi-final in Casablanca.

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[CPJ] Dakar -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malian authorities to immediately release journalist Alfousseini Togo after he was arrested and detained April 9 on charges of undermining the state.

[Premium Times] The North Africans will now battle a resurgent Mali side, who cruised past Burkina Faso earlier in the day with an emphatic 2-0 win

[The Conversation] The Fulani people are Africa's largest pastoralist group . There are between 25 million and 40 million Fulani people across 17 African countries , from the Atlantic shores of Senegal and Mauritania to Sudan.

[MFWA] The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) strongly condemns the arrest of Alfouseyni Togo, editor of the Canard de la Venise newspaper. Togo was remanded in custody on April 9th 2025 by the Judicial Unit Against Cybercrime.

[MFWA] The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is deeply concerned about the abduction of Malian activist Alou Badra Sacko, recently appointed president of the movement Touche pas à mon Argent (Hands off my money).

[RFI] Algeria has closed its airspace to flights to and from Mali and recalled its ambassadors from Mali and Niger, in response to what it calls "serious and unfounded allegations" that it shot down a Malian drone.

[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia -- Sixty-nine Liberians, including several children, have been safely repatriated from Mali after being left stranded by human traffickers who lured them with false promises of reaching Europe. Their return marks the ...

[RFI] Tensions between Algeria and its southern neighbours have flared once again after the downing of a Turkish-made military drone near the Mali border, underscoring the ongoing instability in the Sahel.

[Afropop] Another giant has fallen. Amadou Bagayoko, who toured the world to acclaim with his wife Mariam as the duo Amadou and Mariam, has died of undisclosed causes at age 70. Afropop first encountered the duo in the early '90s, purchasing cassette...

[allAfrica] UN Condemns Extrajudicial Killings In Sudan's Capital Khartoum

[MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has resumed activities in the Nampala region of central Mali, after we had been forced to evacuate our staff on 10 December 2024. This followed violence against our teams and restrictions on our movement...

[Premium Times] The levy, which took effect last Friday, applies to all goods from ECOWAS member states entering any of the three nations, except for humanitarian aid.

[Vanguard] The military governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5 percent levy on imported goods from Nigeria and other Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, member-nations.

[People's Dispatch] Ostensibly meant to foster greater cooperation between Francophone countries, the three countries allege that the OIF has become "a remote-controlled political instrument" operated from Paris to suit its "geopolitical consideratio...