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 ...

China's top diplomat began his annual New Year tour of Africa on Sunday, maintaining a 35-year-long tradition, to quietly ...

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 ...

The West African bloc Ecowas has warned that it risks disintegration and worsened insecurity after Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger formalised their breakaway union. The head of the Ecowas commission ...

According to Pauline Njoroge, a key member of Raila Odinga's campaign team, the former prime minister is on a seven-day tour of West Africa, presenting his agenda and vision as an African Union ...

President of the Ghana Football Association, Kurt Okraku, is set to contest for a position on CAF's Executive Council in the ...

Former West African students who studied in the Soviet Union are playing pivotal roles in strengthening Russia’s influence in ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast announced on Tuesday that French troops will leave the country after a decadeslong military presence, the latest African nation to downscale military ties with ...