Violence, displacement and hunger are deepening across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger as the UN warns the Central Sahel crisis ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced billions of dollars of investment for Africa at a summit in Kenya, but the ...

A fight for influence between France, Russia, and the United States in the central Sahel has fomented disaster in the region, after an al Qaeda affiliate filled the vacuum opened by the competition.

When Russian forces withdrew from Kidal in northern Mali, retreating from the very rebels they were sent to crush, they ...

After years of fading from the spotlight, Al Qaeda has reemerged as powerful as ever, and is now poised to take over its ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has concluded his African tour in Ethiopia, which was overshadowed by widespread anti-France ...

Recent coordinated attacks by jihadist and separatist groups in Mali, unprecedented in their scale and coordination, have ...

A lecturer at UPSA and CEO of CenCES, Dr James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr, has criticised what he describes as weak and inconsistent regional leadership in addressing military rule and worsening insecurity in ...

Unfortunately, that is of limited use when it comes to the big crisis on west Africa’s doorstep: jihadism in the Sahel.