Dr. Claudette Yaméogo is Burkina Faso’s only ophthalmologist who specializes in treating children. She is one of just 70 eye doctors for the West African nation's 23 million people.

Forced out of their homes by armed groups, displaced families in Burkina Faso rely on humanitarian aid to meet their children ...

Terrorist groups are becoming more daring with increased attacks on military camps across the west Africa region.

“As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.” — Nelson Mandela ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso are fighting an insurgency linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) that began in northern ...

A double attack Friday by suspected jihadists near Niger's western border with Burkina Faso left 10 troops dead, authorities ...

Niger secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Togo in the second Group B match of the 2025 WAFU Zone B U20 Championship on ...

Niger’s military-led government has declared the nationalization of the Somair uranium mine, previously operated by the French state-owned nuclear en ...

Africa is blessed with gold, cocoa, oil, and the youngest population in the world . The question one asks is: what does this country called Ghana lack? Are we not so blessed in this country? Yet ...

General Abdourahamane Tiani, who secured his first presidential mandate at the end of March, is trying to maintain the ...