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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

By joining ATI, Burkina, Chad and Senegal will be able to accelerate crucial investment and better cope with the pandemic. Benin, who has been a member since 2012, will further benefit from ATI ...

In February 2017, France and the Group of Five for the Sahel (G5) countries—Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger—announced the creation of the G5 Sahel Force, a five-thousand-troop ...

The defense chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries, excluding Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea and Niger, gather on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, for their ...