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N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby has urged Mali's military junta to reconsider its decision to withdraw...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Benin has decided to terminate its military and police unit contributions to a United Nations peacekeeping...

By Anne Mimault and Thiam Ndiaga OUGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Rescue workers have found no survivors in a rescue chamber deep inside...

By Thiam Ndiaga PERKOA, Burkina Faso (Reuters) - The families of eight missing miners in Burkina Faso desperately awaited news...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Militants freed around 60 prisoners during an attack on a jail in northwest Burkina...

CONAKRY (Reuters) -The military junta in Guinea said its transition back to civilian rule will probably take more than three...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's government has launched a judicial investigation into a flood at a zinc...

COTONOU (Reuters) - At least one police officer was killed and several wounded in an attack on a police station...

By Aaron Ross DAKAR (Reuters) - When a dozen suspected Islamist militants from a neighbouring country were spotted riding motorcycles...

CONAKRY/OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Guinea's ruling junta on Monday signalled it might break a deadline to set out its plans to...

BAMAKO/OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Fifteen soldiers and six civilians were killed on Sunday in attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso, neighbouring West...

By Anne Mimault OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - The president of Burkina Faso's mines chamber said on Monday extra measures would be...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Unidentified armed men killed seven border police and four National Guard members in separate attacks in different...

COTONOU (Reuters) - Five soldiers were killed by suspected Islamist militants in northern Benin's Pendjari National Park, two military sources...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -At least 12 soldiers and four paramilitary fighters were killed and 21 wounded in an attack on an...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso's former President Roch Kabore, who had been under house arrest since he was toppled in a...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Armed men have kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun in northern Burkina Faso, the bishop of the local diocese...

By Nellie Peyton DAKAR (Reuters) - West Africa is facing its worst food crisis on record driven by conflict, drought,...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Mali's military said it has killed over 200 Islamist militants in an operation in the centre of...