West Africa and Sahel
The three Sahel Alliance countries — Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger — withdrew from the annual meeting of the West African Economic and Monetary...
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The spark was an assault by the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad, backed by elements believed to belong to Russia’s Africa Corps, on...
Niger’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Abdoulaye Sidou, has issued an order banning the export of premium gasoline and diesel, a move meant to...
Burkina Faso has announced direct revenues of 2.5 trillion CFA francs, about 3.8 billion euros, from its mining sector between 2022 and 2025. Energy,...
Niger’s government has formed a technical committee to manage the petroleum products crisis and restructure the cross-debts among the sector’s institutions, amid supply difficulties,...
The three Sahel Alliance countries — Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger — withdrew from the annual meeting of the West African Economic and Monetary...
Senegalese authorities have arrested television commentator Badara Gadiaga following his appearance on a local talk show, during which he discussed past allegations against Prime...
Gora Khouma, Secretary General of the Union of Road Transport Workers in Senegal, has called on truck drivers to immediately stop traveling to Mali...
The leadership of the Sahel Alliance – made up of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso – has announced the postponement of its second summit,...
The Nigerian Armed Forces have thwarted an attempt to bomb a strategic bridge linking the towns of Marte and Dikwa in Borno State, northern...
The annual Gerewol festival of the Wodaabe tribes — a subgroup of the Bororo Fulani — has begun in the vast Sahelian plains of...
At least ten Nigerien soldiers were killed and fifteen others wounded on Friday in two simultaneous attacks carried out by “hundreds of armed men”...
Mali’s National Transitional Council voted overwhelmingly on Thursday in favor of a bill granting transitional president General Assimi Goïta a five-year renewable presidential term—without...
Violent clashes erupted Thursday between security forces and protesters in the northern Senegalese city of Rosso, following public outrage over the death of a...
Mali’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Abdoulaye Diop, held talks with his Spanish counterpart, José Manuel Albares, on the sidelines of the...