On Dec.26, Niger banned entry for US citizens, also citing the US ban on its citizens. The country is also military-led like its neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso. All three formed the Alliance of ...

Ibrahim Kalin says intelligence diplomacy delivering results from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa as Ankara deepens its trade ...

As 2026 begins, a review of the 2025 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) highlights how African countries continued to bear the ...

New estimates show that violence against women and girls remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world - and that one of its fastest-growing frontiers is the digital space.

African nations and institutions have strongly reacted to the capture of Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro by the United ...

The United States launched “powerful and deadly” strikes against groups it claims are affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) in Nigeria, ...

Nigeria faces issues beyond religious tensions, including socio-political challenges and violence affecting the diverse ...

A new fossil analysis supports the idea a human ancestor was walking upright far earlier than previously thought.

The year 2025 will be remembered as a pivotal period in global and Nigerian defence history, marked by intensifying conflicts ...

By the close of 2025, Nigeria's security landscape told a sobering story. The marginal gains the Tinubu administration cited--arrests, killings and dislodging of terrorists--were overshadowed by ...

The UAE’s primary alignment in Sudan is with the RSF. This relationship is operational rather than declaratory: the RSF ...