nited States security engagements in West Africa cannot be understood without consideration of regional geopolitical challenges spanning political instability, climate change, humanitarian and food ...

French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

The Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, begins on January 29. Also called Spring Festival, this annual celebration is ...

The Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, has declared that any member of the Lakurawa terrorists seen by Nigerian troops is as good as dead. Musa was reacting to the court order that ...

A few months ago, the South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence services revealed that North Korea had sent approximately 11,000 troops to fight on behalf of Russia. “As of mid-January 2025 ...

The strengthening of cooperative relations between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Kingdom dominated the visit by the UK Minister of State for Defence, Lord ...

NIAMEY - A joint force of 5,000 troops from military-led neighbours ... from West Africa's main political and economic group ECOWAS, which is still pushing them to reconsider the move that ...

President John Dramani Mahama visited Ghanaian troops deployed with the ECOWAS Mission in The Gambia (ECOMIG) during his first international trip since his inauguration. The trip, which occurred on ...

Biden’s address to troops came the morning after his farewell address to the nation in which he said it was his "great honor" to serve as the 46th president. "You all represent what America is ...

His exhortation for American troops to remember the oath they take to the constitution appeared to be a plea for them not to follow any illegal orders that come from Hegseth or Trump, who during ...

Ukrainian military forces have captured 27 Russian troops in the Kursk region, including soldiers from various regions of Russia and the occupied Crimean peninsula. Kyiv continues to prioritize ...