Photo of Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo Burkina Faso has a new Prime Minister, after the December 6, 2024, ousting by junta...

Photo of Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo Burkina Faso has a new Prime Minister, after the December 6, 2024, ousting by junta...
Chadian President Mahamat Déby’s support for Sudan’s Hemedti amid the Sudanese conflict has sparked tension at home,...
Mining companies that have been operating in the Sahel for a long time are now experiencing a tectonic shift in their...
The military leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger said Saturday they would quit the G5 anti-jihadist force in Africa's...
An illegal gold mining network, comprised of Chinese, Chadian, and Nigerien nationals, has been dismantled in southern...
A court in Italy on Monday set a February date for a new trial in absentia of four Egyptian security officers accused...
A court in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott on Monday sentenced former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to five years...
Niger's military leaders said Monday that they were ending two European Union security and defence missions in the...
Mali's army has retaken the town of Kidal from Tuareg-dominated rebels. Here we look at the significance of the place...
Jubilant Malians have taken to the streets and the ruling junta issued triumphant statements saying the military's...
The United Nations said it resumed humanitarian flights in Niger on Wednesday, suspended after a July coup in the...
More than 260 Libyan and international companies on Wednesday attended a forum in Benghazi organised by the country's...
The military leaders who took power in Niger this year have commissioned a giant pipeline that will carry crude oil to...
Tunisia's president said Wednesday that the escape of five prisoners convicted of "terrorism" was a well-planned...
Egypt will help evacuate "about 7,000" foreigners and dual nationals from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, the foreign...
In Libya: Several hundred people protested in Tripoli and other Libyan cities late Tuesday over the deadly strike on a...
Burkina Faso's junta-led government signed a deal with Russia on Friday for the construction of a nuclear power plant...
Thousands of angry protesters gathered outside the French embassy in Tunisia on Tuesday, also denouncing the US, after...
UN peacekeepers in Mali announced Monday their pullout has started from two camps in the tense Kidal region, opening a...
Relief convoys which have been waiting for days in Egypt were Tuesday headed towards the Rafah border crossing with...
Niger's military regime said Tuesday that six soldiers and 31 "terrorists" had been killed in fighting in a restive...
Niger's military leaders have ordered the United Nations coordinator to leave the country within 72 hours, blaming the...
An Egyptian policeman shot dead two Israeli tourists and their Egyptian guide Sunday, local media and Israeli...
Egyptian presidential hopeful Ahmed al-Tantawi on Monday said eight of his supporters had been arrested, bringing the...
Tuareg rebels on Wednesday claimed to have captured a camp of Mali's armed forces in the north of the country, where...
The Sahel issues are now the domain of the Algerian military, who have sidelined the president and his aids due to...
France said Thursday that it would start withdrawing its troops from Niger this week after a falling-out with the...
By Rim Taher: Nearly a month after floods hit Derna in eastern Libya, survivors are struggling to overcome the...
Corruption and Politics: By Arezki Daoud: Oil company Sonatrach is once again going through turmoil. This week, CEO...
Twenty-nine soldiers were killed in western Niger in an attack by suspected jihadists, the defence ministry said on...
Niger began three days of national mourning Tuesday after 29 soldiers were killed in a suspected jihadist attack, the...
By Imed Lamloum: More than three weeks after Libya's deadly flood disaster, the divided country's two rival...
A Malian army convoy was moving closer towards the northern rebel stronghold Kidal on Tuesday, following a resumption...
Libya's prosecutor general ordered the detention of the country's ambassador to Brussels on Tuesday over alleged...
The new top US senator on foreign relations on Tuesday blocked some $235 million in military aid to Egypt over human...
A terrorist attack took place in the Tijiane region, Niger, on September 29, 2023, resulting in the death of 13...
First migrants in a week land on Italy's Lampedusa A small group of Tunisians arrived by boat on the Italian island of...
Elections in Burkina Faso are "not a priority" compared to "security", the country's military leader Captain Ibrahim...
A Rome-bound aircraft departed on Saturday from Libya's capital, restarting flights to Italy after a nearly...
Tuareg-dominated separatist groups said on Saturday that they had inflicted heavy losses on the Malian military in an...
Libya's prosecutor general has ordered the arrest of four more officials, bringing to 12 the number held as part of an...
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Malian political groups expressed outrage on Wednesday at the junta's decision to postpone indefinitely the...