Despite its lack of substantive resources, Russia is winning the battle for influence in the information space across huge ...

Military coupists like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré and Mali’s Assimi Goïta have not only attracted domestic support but ...

By Amos SAFOSecurity analysts of the Alliance of Sahelian States (AES), comprising, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have cited Nigeria and the Ivory Coast as the biggest threats to their fight for ...

West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday threatened "targeted sanctions" on anyone obstructing Guinea-Bissau's return to ...

Presidents and their deputies from across west Africa met Sunday in Nigeria for a regional meeting whose agenda was dominated by two recent coup attempts.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday confirmed that 11 Nigerian Air Force personnel and a C-130 aircraft detained in ...

A makeshift village in the Mauritanian desert shelters thousands of refugees who have fled Mali in recent weeks as fighting ...

The military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched a regional investment bank with an initial capital ...

The Benin events mark the third coup attempt and first failed coup this year in the Sahel region. There have been 17 coup attempts in Africa since 2020, including 11 successful coups. This makes the ...

A statement by the Confederation of Sahel States (AES), signed by Assimi Goita, the Mali junta leader, alleged that the NAF plane entered the airspace of Burkina Faso without clearance. But NAF said ...

The October kidnapping by suspected jihadists of an American pilot working for an evangelical Christian missionary agency in ...

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president ...