Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa have surged by nearly 60 percent since 2021, though this is marked by widely varying regional threat trajectories, actors, and ...

The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a jihadist terrorist group, reportedly earns about $191 million (about N291 ...

France’s withdrawal signals the decline of its traditional cultural and political dominance in Francophone Africa. The ...

France’s pullout from West Africa follows two precepts. By dropping Françafrique, President Macron pulls two popular flags ...

With the political leaders of francophone Africa increasingly turning their backs on their former colonial rulers, French ...

Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.

Since 2022, France has pulled its soldiers from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. Chad ended its security pact with France in ...

FILE - The defense chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries excluding Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea and Niger, gather for their extraordinary meeting in ...

Last year Burkina Faso’s military president, Ibrahim Traore, indefinitely postponed an election planned for July 2024, saying it was “not a priority.” There is no end in sight for Guinea’s ...

Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty stressed on Sunday to his Chadian counterpart, Abderaman Koulamallah, that Cairo places a ...

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