nited States security engagements in West Africa cannot be understood without consideration of regional geopolitical challenges spanning political instability, climate change, humanitarian and food ...

Digital propaganda and manipulated information by external actors erode public confidence in democracy on the continent.For the past three decades, Beijing has started the year by sending its foreign ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

A map of deadly infectious diseases known to attack the central nervous system (CNS) of people who are already suffering with ...

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday announced the formal exit of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso ...

Somaliland has been a self-governing region of Somalia for more than three decades, but its claim of independence is not recognized by Mogadishu or any foreign government. While this has limited ...

With Morocco and Algeria ballooning their military budgets in anticipation of an all-out war, one area remains as “Africa’s last colony”, leaving a black hole in global data. Western Sahara ...

With performance and participation, cricket in Nigeria hopes to shape people, their mindsets and value systems ...