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

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

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

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

But in CAR, where it is led by Prigozhin’s former right-hand man, Dmitri Sytyi, it is still known as Wagner – and its forces ...

A military alliance between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger has withdrawn their respective ambassadors from Algeria in response to the downing of a Malian drone last week ...

In recent years, the Sahel region has been shaken by a series of coups and shifts in governance that have significantly disrupted regional stability. These upheavals have sparked considerable ...

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 creation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to pursue economic and security ...

Niger's former colonial ruler, France, has become unpopular in the Sahel and has lost influence. The junta no longer considers itself bound by partnership agreements from the aegis of Nigerien ...

Political analyst Mustapha Sayedj believes that what is happening in Mali is due to the military institution’s coup since ...