Alliance of Sahel States condemns US capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, calling it “act of aggression” and urging UN to ...

Africa’s political and economic outlook in 2026 is defined less by crisis than by contradiction. Fewer elections are ...

Terrorist activity across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in 2025 underscored the persistence and geographic expansion of ...

The Alliance of Sahel States plans to create a joint purchasing agency covering Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. The initiative aims to regulate cereal markets, build a shared grain reserve, and ...

The Christmas Day U.S. military strikes in Northwest Nigeria represent a pivotal moment in the African nation’s struggle to contain extremist expansion, and marks a significant tactical shift in a ...

Mali imposed a separate reciprocal visa restriction on U.S. citizens in October, when the country announced a $5,000 to ...

Central Asia, the Sahel region and northern Europe experienced their hottest year on record in 2025, according to AFP ...

Facing a growing terror threat in the Sahel, the Trump administration could discover that its avoidance of “long-term ...

Against a backdrop of constraints on press freedom in the Sahel, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for safeguards for ...

Aaron Zelin, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, analyzes the U.S. strike on ISIS targets in Nigeria and the message it sends.

Sixteen precision munitions were launched from a platform in the Gulf of Guinea against two major ISIS enclaves in the Bauni ...

Immediately following surprise US strikes targeting militants in Nigeria, it remained unclear who or what was actually hit as ...