When the three-million-year-old bones of Lucy were unearthed in an Ethiopian valley in 1974, paleoanthropologists anointed ...

The World Bank has also intensified support for transport and logistics projects that strengthen food supply chains. Investments in rural roads and regional corridors have reduced travel times, cut ...

Under the scorching midday sun in the upper catchment of Ethiopia’s Abijata-Shalla National Park, a local youth group toils along the edges of a deep gully carved into the hills by erosion. The young ...

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The Mukalla airstrikes in Yemen represent a critical inflection point in Gulf security dynamics, exposing deepening fissures ...

The Africa Report explores four possible scenarios that could unfold in the Alliance of Sahel States over the next year.

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Air traffic at the island of Socotra’s main airport came to a halt as a deepening crisis between the UAE and Saudi Arabia ...

The opinions and characterizations in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the U.S. government. Olivier Walther receives funding from the OECD Sahel and West ...

Sahel countries launch a joint battalion to fight armed groups as they boost ties with Russia amid rising insecurity.

Carnegie Mellon University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Military elements attempted to topple Benin’s government in early December 2025. However, unlike other coups across the ...

ABUJA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - States in Africa's Sahel region accused Nigeria of violating their airspace, saying one of its military transport planes landed in Burkina Faso on Monday without clearance.