Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has renewed calls for Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to return to the Economic Community of West African States ...

Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio, who took over the rotating chairmanship of the Economic Community of West African ...

Yann Vezilier, a member of the French embassy in Bamako, was arrested by Malian authorities amidst accusations of a plot to ...

A French man arrested in Mali is a member of the French embassy in the capital Bamako and accusations against him are "unfounded", the French foreign office said in a statement to Reuters on Saturday.

In recent years, a wave of military takeovers has swept across the Sahel region—Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali—toppling long-standing regimes and sending shockwaves through Africa’s political ...

Mali's military-led government arrested two generals and a French national, accusing them of participating in an alleged plot ...

A representative of the junta said the man had worked “on behalf of the French intelligence service, which mobilized ...

A French veteran has been arrested on suspicion of spying and attempting to mount a coup against Mali’s military rulers ...

Mali's military rulers say they have arrested a French national on suspicion of spying for his country in an attempt to ...

Mali’s military rulers say they arrested a group of military personnel and civilians, including two Malian generals and a ...

NGOs in the violence-wracked Sahel region are dangerously caught between military juntas who accuse them of being spies, and ...