The takeover also stamped the start of a political ripple in the wider West Africa region that has since seen other civilian governments fall. “We largely saw civilian rule strengthening in ...

ECOWAS has sought to promote economic and political cooperation within the fragmented region, home to a mix of former French and British colonies. Mucahid Durmaz, senior West Africa analyst at ...

Countries in West Africa and the Sahel are facing a mixed outlook of expanding prosperity and innovation on one hand, and escalating hardship and insecurity on the other. Senegal and Côte D’Ivoire for ...

West African leaders met in ... A French military withdrawal from the Sahel — the region along the Sahara desert across Africa — has heightened concerns over conflicts spreading southward ...

The withdrawal marks yet another chapter to the crises in West Africa, a region gripped by political instability and rising violence, since a jihadist insurgency erupted in Mali in 2012 and spread ...

Map locates Lomé, Togo. NIGER AFRICA The hairdresser, Tele da Silveira, is one of about 150 women who have received mental health training in West and ... world’s poorest regions, where ...

If the Wagner group can secure Niger as a client, Russia will have a powerful position in West Africa, and access to its enormous resources. France, the US, and their allies in the region are ...