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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

Mexico’s immigration agency detains two buses carrying 102 migrants in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The majority of the migrants came from the West African nations of Senegal and Guinea, as well as six from Djibouti, two from Congo and one from Mauritania.
2023-12-12

West African regional bloc ECOWAS announces a no-fly zone over Niger.
2023-07-30

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reports the discovery of several cases of fraud amounting to at least $6 million (£4.6 million) through overbilling and the "likely collusion" between a bank and former IFRC employees during the 2013–16 West African Ebola outbreak.
2017-11-4

Leaders from the West African bloc ECOWAS and from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation plead with Gambian long-time President Yahya Jammeh who lost in the recently held elections to step aside or face consequences.
2016-12-18

A Spanish nurse becomes the first person to be infected with the Ebola virus outside West Africa.
2014-10-6

Liberia closes schools and quarantines communities in order to stop the spread of the Ebola virus that has claimed 672 lives in West Africa.
2014-07-30

The death toll from the West Africa ebola outbreak reaches 121.
2014-04-15

Oxfam warns of a major food crisis in West Africa unless immediate action is taken.
2012-03-9

A Nigerian general says armies in West Africa are ready to oust Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo by force.
2011-01-21