
Ministers of the Confederation of Sahel States have concluded high level discussions in Ouagadougou aimed at reinforcing regional security cooperation among member countries....
ByWest Africa WeeklyMarch 2, 2026The Government of Niger has taken a new step in consolidating its role within the Alliance of Sahel States, as Prime Minister Ali...
ByWest Africa WeeklyFebruary 25, 2026Mali’s transitional president, Assimi Goïta, has formally placed the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States at the centre of the country’s foreign...
ByWest Africa WeeklyFebruary 23, 2026Russia has congratulated Burkina Faso’s President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, on his assumption of the rotating presidency of the Confederation of Sahel States, known...
ByWest Africa WeeklyFebruary 4, 2026The Alliance of Sahel States has strongly condemned the armed attack on Niamey’s Diori Hamani International Airport and the adjacent military air base,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyFebruary 2, 2026At the AES summit bringing together Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Niger’s Head of State, General Abdourahamane Tiani, outlined what he described as...
ByWest Africa WeeklyDecember 23, 2025Meeting in Bamako, the three Heads of State of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES) have officially launched AES Television, a new regional...
ByWest Africa WeeklyDecember 23, 2025Burkina Faso’s Superior Council of Communication has approved the allocation of a broadcast frequency for the launch of Daandé Liptako, the radio station...
ByWest Africa WeeklyDecember 19, 2025Ministers of Energy from the Alliance of Sahel States, alongside their counterparts from Togo and Chad, met in Niamey for high-level discussions chaired...
ByWest Africa WeeklyDecember 12, 2025The diplomatic crisis between Nigeria and the Confederation of Sahel States (AES) deepened on Monday after Burkina Faso confirmed that a Nigerian Air...
ByWest Africa WeeklyDecember 9, 2025Nigeria has launched the long-delayed ECOWAS National Biometric Identity Card, a regional project aimed at modernising identity systems and easing movement across West...
ByWest Africa WeeklyDecember 1, 2025On November 26, 2025, during the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in Ouagadougou, Niger’s Foreign Minister Bakary...
ByWest Africa WeeklyNovember 27, 2025