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Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger write to the United Nations Security Council to denounce Ukrainian support for rebel groups in the Sahel region of West Africa.
2024-08-21

The Assimi Goïta-led military junta prohibits the operation of France-supported NGOs in Mali to reciprocate the French government's suspension of development aid for the West African country due to its involvement with Russia's Wagner Group in the war.
2022-11-21

Guinea reports West Africa's first death from the Marburg virus after a person died from viral hemorrhagic fever.
2021-08-9

A boat carrying migrants from West Africa capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, resulting in 43 fatalities.
2021-01-20

China sends an additional 232 People's Liberation Army medical workers to West Africa to combat the outbreak (in addition to the 78 that had previously been stationed).
2015-01-13

In her Royal Christmas Message, Queen Elizabeth II praises aid workers for fighting ebola in West Africa.
2014-12-25

The World Health Organization reports that the death toll in the three worst affected countries in West Africa - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - has passed 5,000.
2014-11-13

Up to 13 million in West Africa are at risk in a food crisis caused by a prolonged drought.
2012-07-7

Mali's ruling junta rejects a West African regional plan to extend the life of an interim civilian government.
2012-04-28

Oxfam warns of a "double disaster" following flooding compounding a recent drought and food crisis in Niger.
2010-08-24