Military regimes in the Sahel have turned to tactics including arrests to assert control over critical mineral supplies ...

As Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger prepare to withdraw from the West African bloc Ecowas ... Tuareg rebels in the north of Mali. The Tuareg people are among the indigenous Berber groups populating ...

Nigerian historian and professor of African Studies, Toyin Falola, has decried democratic recession in African countries, ...

Niger’s coup leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani accused neighbouring Nigeria of collaborating with France to destabilise ...

Increasing levels of extreme poverty in Africa were turbocharged by Covid-19, fuelling the fire of relative deprivation. 2024 ...

In the heart of West Africa lies a treasure that has woven communities together for centuries: cotton. This humble fibre has ...

Leaders of the west African regional grouping Ecowas approved the long-awaited withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso ...

The Sahel region of Africa, between the Sahara and the tropical savannahs to the south, has emerged as a significant base of ...

At least 69 migrants, including 44 Pakistanis, died after a boat capsized off Morocco’s coast while attempting to reach Spain. The tragedy underscores the deadly risks of the Atlantic migration route, ...

The Tuareg people are among the indigenous Berber groups populating the Sahara, in the south of Algeria and the north of Mali and Niger ... Community of West African States (Ecowas) in January ...

Jan 5 (Reuters) - Nine civilians including women and children were killed in an attack on a vehicle in Mali's Segou region ... reaching billions of people worldwide every day.

At least eight civilians have been killed in central Mali, several sources said on Sunday, accusing the Malian army and Russia's Wagner group for the latest attack in the troubled west African country ...