When mutinous soldiers briefly seized Benin Republic’s national television station and a military base earlier this month, ...
The United States has expanded its travel restrictions to include several countries, targeting states aligned with the ...
Military rulers in west Africa's Sahel region may well have celebrated had a recent coup attempt in Benin resulted in another ...
President John Dramani Mahama has called for building a bridge between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ...
Fitch Solutions has warned that Ghana’s economic growth faces risks from volatile commodity markets and terrorism spillover from the Sahel. The rating agency, ...
Despite its lack of substantive resources, Russia is winning the battle for influence in the information space across huge ...
The Algerian state that they helped create in a bitter anti-colonial war with France became a colonial state itself, they ...
West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday threatened "targeted sanctions" on anyone obstructing Guinea-Bissau's return to ...
Nigeria has permitted the United States to conduct armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) strikes on terror groups organizing m ...
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 ...
A leader of the West African regional bloc says coups and attempted coups have left the region in a state of emergency ...