The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) bringing together Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, has put forward an ambitious railway ...

That African countries trade too little with each other is a well-worn gripe among the continent’s policymakers. Officially, ...

Despite losing its territorial "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria, ISIS remains a potent global threat. The terror group has ...

From prime-time news bulletins to front-page headlines, from state television monologues to social media amplification, the Algerian media apparatus turned AFCON 2025 into something far more corrosive ...

From 2020 through 2025, more Muslims than Christians were killed in religiously targeted attacks. Armed groups such as Boko Haram and ISIS–West Africa primarily kill Muslims who resist them, alongside ...

A new study led by Yale anthropologist Catherine Panter-Brick examines how stakeholders in socially diverse, conflict-affected societies conceptualize ...

Across villages, highways, farms, and even places of worship, a rising tide of violence in Nigeria has transformed insecurity ...

For more than two decades, analysts, strategists, and dissident thinkers have argued that the post–Cold War international ...

Russian-backed forces are turning West Africa’s gold mines into killing grounds. They loot, murder, and smuggle gold to ...

The Sahel’s plight is a powerful lesson for the global community. The interconnectedness of climate change, state fragility ...

“Bienvenue a Bamako!” The fixer, the minder and the men linked to the Malian government were waiting for us at the airport in Bamako. Polite, smiling – and watchful. It was late December, and we had ...

His Excellency Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi, met Thursday with Special Representative of the African Union Commission for Mali and the ...