Since its founding in 1975, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been a cornerstone of regional ...

China is stepping into a weapons supply breach in parts of Africa’s Sahel as authorities in the region cut ties with former ...

France was recently asked to leave Chad, and its relations in central and West Africa are increasingly weak. With Russian ...

Algeria and Mali share a 1,400-kilometer border and long-standing cultural ties, but their visions for the region have ...

SITE quoted a statement by Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) on Thursday saying 70 soldiers were killed in attacks ...

Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM said it killed 70 soldiers in raids on two military posts in north Benin, the biggest death count claimed by jihadists in the country in over a decade of activity in West ...

The Sahel insurgency took root after a Tuareg rebellion ... which contributed to spurring five military coups in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger between 2020 and 2023. Military authorities cut ...

According to the UN, the region of the Sahel comprises 10 central and west ... which was only recently upended by a series of coups that installed pro-Moscow juntas across the region.

JNIM, an Al Qaeda affiliate, claims responsibility for the deaths of 70 soldiers in two military post attacks in northern ...

The foreign ministers of Nigeria and Niger held talks Wednesday on cross-border security, terrorism and economic cooperation, ...

On July 28th, 2024 President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected again with 52 percent of the vote, over Edmundo González, the candidate of the opposition, who received 43 percent of the vote. As it ...