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A political mission sent to Guinea-Bissau by West Africa’s regional bloc to resolve an electoral dispute has left the country ...

For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching ... director of the Timbuktu Institute in Dakar. Also read: Islamic Centre of India starts ‘Ramadan ...

Ivory Coast became the latest African nation to expel French troops, taking control of the last remaining French military ...

For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea .

China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is one of eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs) recognized by the African Union (AU). Until ...

A political mission sent to Guinea-Bissau by West Africa’s regional bloc to resolve an electoral dispute has left the country ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Some 10,000 contracts with the U.S. Agency for International Development were terminated on Wednesday, in letters sent to ...

Could deteriorating diplomatic ties between France and the Sahel nations have consequences for the common currency used by WAEMU and CEMAC countries? Faces masked, hundreds of young men armed with ...