The takeover also stamped the start of a political ripple in the wider West Africa region that has since seen other civilian governments fall. “We largely saw civilian rule strengthening in ...

LONDON, March 21 (Reuters Breakingviews) - West Africa is undergoing its own version ... to intervene militarily against the juntas. A map showing that the ECOWAS breakaway trio make up just ...

This violence, they emphasised, took no notice of the black lines men had marked down on maps – much of the ... Research Institute’s Sahel and West Africa Programme, said that the three ...

It's been weeks and rumour has it he's still in there. It's the seventh coup in West Africa in three years. There's been a seemingly unstoppable wave of them, washing along the edge of the Sahara ...