DAKAR, SENEGAL— West African leaders discussed setting up a force to combat extremists in the region and will send an observation mission to Gambia before elections, the regional economic body said Saturday. The decisions were announced after about a dozen heads of state, including presidents ...

The two-day meeting, which holds in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, is to prepare for a Heads of State summit this week. The countdown for the end of insurgency by the Nigeria-based terrorist sect, Boko Haram, has begun. Defence and Foreign Affairs Ministers from member countries of the Economic Commu...

Thu Jan 19, 2017 | 7:46pm EST By Tim Cocks and Emma Farge | BANJUL/DAKAR West African armies halted an operation in Gambia aimed at installing the country's new president, Adama Barrow, on Thursday so regional leaders could make one last attempt to convince longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh to step as...

Background On 31 August 2017 at the Tripartite Commission Meeting for the Voluntary Repatriation of Burundian Refugees in Tanzania, the Tripartite Commission (United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Burundi, and UNHCR) issued a joint communiqué and agreed to implement a work plan from 7 September ...