The Republic of Niger was captured by Gen Abdourahamane Tchiani in 2023. These three countries exited the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and formed the Alliance of Sahel States ...
The military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched a regional investment bank capitalised at 500 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Burkina Faso briefly detained eleven Nigerian military officers after a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft made an emergency ...
The Associated Press has spoken to over 30 refugees from Mali who say they witnessed beheadings, rapes and other abuses ...
The solution to all these economic problems is integration of the West African economy with Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria ...
Beneath the sprawling branches of an ancient tree in his abode in the Wurno area of Sokoto, Mallam Aliyu Hassan drifts into ...
West Africa stands at a critical moment—fragile, fast-moving, and unforgiving. Despite years of regional diplomacy, the Economic Community of West ...
(Abuja, FCT, Nigeria) From Kogi’s riverbank villages through Benue-Plateau rivers to Kaduna and Kebbi’s wheat fields, Fulani Ethnic Militia attacks are shifting, deadlier, and increasingly coordinated ...