Let’s be honest , when most Africans hear the word “military leader,” our minds immediately jump to dictatorship, no freedom, ...

Mali's junta chief has granted himself a five-year presidential mandate, renewable "as many times as necessary" and without ...

In jihadist-threatened north Benin, the army is waging a campaign away from the front -- a programme of social projects, ...

Gunmen in the West African country of Niger have killed 13 people in the latest of a string of attacks in the region. The ...

The new chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, ...

The Malian court-appointed administrator of Barrick Mining's Loulo-Gounkoto complex plans to sell one metric ton of gold from ...

General Abdourahamane Tiani, who secured his first presidential mandate at the end of March, is trying to maintain the ...

Terrorist groups are becoming more daring with increased attacks on military camps across the west Africa region.

He listed the five major security threats as the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East, banditry in the North-West and ...

A l-Qaeda affiliate Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is the main group behind a surge in militant jihadist attacks ...

The World Bank’s Pathways to Scale highlights how economic inclusion programs across the Sahel, especially those targeting ...

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