The Latest Breaking News from West Africa

These are the first cases of Lassa Fever seen in the country for more than a decade

The UK Health Security Agency has said that members of a family which recently travelled to West Africa have tested positive for Lassa Fever - similar to Ebola - which kills around 5,000 people each year

Mali's transitional government has created working groups with members of West Africa's regional bloc, the African Union and the United Nations to work toward a return to constitutional order, it said on Wednesday.

There have been four coups across West Africa in 18 months amid public collapse of trust in state institutions.

Mali's government has asked the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) to lift sanctions that will have severe consequences for the population, it said on Monday.

Specific contexts differ, but underlying factors often include jihadist conflict and failures to provide inclusive governance

West Africa is grappling with a wave of military coups over the past 18 months that has some wondering which country could be next

(This February 4 story deletes incorrect description of Boko Haram as an affiliate of Al Qaeda in paragraph 14; corrects number of Islamic State affiliates in West and Central Africa in paragraph 15; relationship between Islamic State West Africa Province and Islamic State in the Greater Sahara in paragraph 17;…

Mali has defaulted on bonds worth 2.7 billion CFA francs ($4.67 million), its finance ministry said on Wednesday, blaming sanctions imposed by West Africa's regional bloc and central bank.

Witnesses say they fear another coup attempt is underway in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau

President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea-Bissau on Tuesday said he survived heavy fire for five hours during an attempted coup which he claimed killed or injured many people in the unstable West African country.