Despite the wave of coups d'état in West Africa, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had close ties to the ousted regimes of Guinea, Mali, and Niger, has successfully protected his country's interests in the region. He has done so through a strategy that...
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The Human Cost of the EU-Mauritania Migration Partnership
Since early 2024, the Mauritanian government has intensified its enforcement operations against undocumented sub-Saharan migrants in Nouakchott, Nouadhibou, and other urban centers. This campaign, which includes increased checkpoints and arrests, is a direct...
Geopolitics: Religion, Oil, and Minerals are Now Washington’s Africa Strategy
Under Donald Trump, US Africa policy is zeroing in on oil and mineral wealth while using evangelical networks as a back channel into Central Africa — offering political cover to leaders and countering Chinese and Russian influence where Catholic voices are more...
Protests Erupt as Water Shortage Grips Mauritania
Opposition lawmakers in Mauritania staged a sit-in at the Ministry of Water to protest a two-week-long water shortage in the capital. The demonstration, which included a demand for the immediate resignation of the Water Minister, comes amid growing public frustration...
Ivory Coast Edges Toward Political Flashpoint Ahead of 2025 Election
Rising tensions, legacy rivalries, and fears of renewed violence loom over a fragile democracy. With just months to go before Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential election, the political atmosphere is growing tense—perhaps dangerously so. Both the ruling party and the...
Niger Deepens Strategic Ties with Russia After Break from France
Civil nuclear cooperation and uranium development signal a shift in Niamey's global posture In a development that further signals Niger’s departure from its traditional Western orbit, Niamey hosted a high-level Russian delegation on July 28, 2025, led by Russian...
Geopolitics: Religion, Oil, and Minerals are Now Washington’s Africa Strategy
Under Donald Trump, US Africa policy is zeroing in on oil and mineral wealth while using evangelical networks as a...
Protests Erupt as Water Shortage Grips Mauritania
Opposition lawmakers in Mauritania staged a sit-in at the Ministry of Water to protest a two-week-long water shortage...
West Africa: Despite Record Oil Production, Senegal Faces Fuel Price Pressure
In Senegal, drivers are feeling the pinch as fuel prices soar to the highest levels in the entire WAEMU region—even...
The EU’s Silent Partner: Mauritania’s Migration Deal Under Scrutiny
Mauritania is getting €210 million in EU funding to act as a migration gatekeeper to fortress Europe. The northwest...
Brief: Fifteen Migrants Found Dead in a Boat off the Coast of Nouadhibou, Mauritania
Fifteen undocumented migrants, including one Mauritanian, have died off the coast of Nouadhibou, according to a Sahara...
The US Africa Policy: Don’t Expect Anything New
Africa has been a low priority for virtually all US administrations, be they republicans or democrats. It is true that...
Sahel: A Primer on the Northern Mali Crisis
Northern Mali has always been a region of turmoil, and the responsibility for the misery there starts with the central...
Africa CDC Declares Mpox a Public Health Emergency
By MondAfrique: The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has declared monkeypox, also known...
Migrations: The heartbreaking death of African migrants in the Atlantic, nearly 4,000 miles away
I like the Dominican Republic. It is a joyful country with wonderful people, and well... it is the Caribbeans, after...
Senegal at the Center of Another Geopolitical Fight
By Arezki Daoud: France is experiencing an unprecedented backlash in the Sahel and in West Africa. Disastrous...
Niger and Algeria recall their ambassadors over undocumented migrants
The authorities in Niger summoned the Algerian ambassador Bekhadda Mehdi on 2 April, over Algeria’s treatment of...
Sahel: Wagner Group and Mali army engaging in mass murder and forced displacement of northern populations
The Wagner Group is wracking havoc in northern Mali, with actions that hint on ongoing efforts to depopulate the...
Mauritania: Christian group released from detention, expelled from Mauritania
Media sources report that 15 Christians leaders and their families who were arrested by Mauritania at the end of...
Sahel: Kidnapped in Libya in 2017, South African medic released this week in Mali
A South African paramedic who had been held by jihadists in Mali for over six years has been released, security and...
Niger: UN resumes humanitarian flights in Niger
The United Nations said it resumed humanitarian flights in Niger on Wednesday, suspended after a July coup in the...
Niger and ECOWAS: The cost of collective punishment
Lines of hundreds of trucks stretch back many kilometres close to Benin's northern border with Niger, their cargo...
Libya: ‘Worse than war’: Flood trauma haunts survivors
By Fulya Ozerkan: Grief etched into her face, 15-year-old Ibrar struggled to find the words to describe her pain at...
Morocco: Earthquake kills hundreds of people in Marrakesh
A powerful earthquake that shook Morocco late Friday killed more than 600 people, interior ministry figures showed,...
Gabon: People waiting for junta to announce plan in coup aftermath
People in the central African state of Gabon awaited a steer on their future on Thursday after rebel army officers...
Algeria: Jet skiers killed by Algeria coastguard after losing way: reports
Two holidaymakers jet skiing in Morocco were shot dead by the Algerian coastguard when they strayed across the...
Sudan: Deadly violence grips Darfur
Sudan's army chief on Tuesday visited Egypt on his first trip abroad since the outbreak of war in April, with the...
Sahel: Sanctions imposed against Niger to trigger catastrophic humanitarian crisis
The United Nations warned Tuesday that the political crisis in Niger and the sanctions imposed against the coup regime...
How Sudan is imploding
War and hunger threaten to "consume" all of Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of...
Sahel: As political tensions persist, Niger population faces hardship
Floods this week have caused the death of 31 people in politically battered Niger, including eight following the...
Environment: Coastal city of Agadir is hottest place ever in Morocco : 120F or 50.4C
Temperatures in Morocco have for the first time on record topped 50 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit), the North...
Niger: Athletes from Niger struggle to perform in Kinshasa after coup
Nigerien participants in the Francophone Games, which have kicked off in DR Congo's capital, have been left struggling...
Mali: Ethnic Tuaregs brace for attacks from army and Russian mercenaries ($)
By Arezki Daoud: The departure of the French forces and the forthcoming exit from Mali of the UN peacekeeping mission...
Corruption and war on human rights defenders in Africa
Amnesty International said Tuesday that West and Central African nations must do more to fight corruption and stop...
Sahel: Malian journalist Mohamed Youssouf Bathily acquitted over PM ‘assassination’ claim
A prominent Malian TV and radio journalist was acquitted on Tuesday on charges that he falsely claimed a former...
Sahel: More trouble in Mali as Touareg groups in north are up in arms over recent junta actions
Armed groups that signed a landmark peace accord in insurgency-hit Mali have alleged widespread fraud during voting in...
Niger adopting traditional conflict resolution methods to end communal conflicts
By Boureima Hama: Traditional chiefs, officials, human rights activists and NGOs have been criss-crossing the vast...
15 die in Mali as livestock truck collides with coaches
Fifteen people died and 32 were injured when a livestock truck collided with two coaches in southern Mali on Tuesday,...
Mali resumes train service on Bamako-Kayes line
Les opérations de vente de tickets pour le 1er voyage du train ont commencé ce jeudi à Kayes L’engouement de la...
Sudan: Sexual violence is widespread in war-torn Sudan
By Bahira Amin: Zeinab was fleeing war-torn Sudan's capital to seek safety when she found herself pinned to the...
Sahel: Over 16 million people need aid in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger
More than 16 million people affected by conflict and climate change in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger need humanitarian...
Sahel: Humanitarian crisis unfolding along Chad’s border with Sudan with influx of new refugees
The UN said Thursday more than 100,000 Sudanese refugees had fled to neighbouring Chad since the conflict in Sudan...
Nigeria: New president starts job on shaky ground after nearly tripling fuel prices
By Alexandre Martins Lopes with Louise Dewast in Abuja and Aminu Abubakar in Kano: Commuting to work in Lagos,...
Sahel: Calm returns to Mauritania after riots sparked by death of man in police custody
The Mauritanian government cut internet access for mobile phones Wednesday, a day after protests over the death of a...
Sahel: Herders and farmers in south Chad continue to clash, more deaths reported
Clashes between herders and farmers have killed at least 10 people in southern Chad, a region regularly troubled by...
Sahel: Herders and farmers’ conflicts intensify in southern Chad
Eleven villagers in southern Chad have been killed by "bandits," in a region troubled by violence between herders and...
Sahel: Thousands displaced by Niger conflict set to return
More than 18,000 people who have fled conflict in jihadist-hit western Niger are being given help to return as...
Sahel: Mali-UN relations worsening by the day as Malian forces are accused of committing mass murder
Mali's military junta on Saturday denounced as "fictitious" and "biased" a UN report that said the army and foreign...
Mali: Government of Mali confronted with accusations of “summary executions, rape and torture”
The Malian army and foreign fighters executed at least 500 people during an anti-jihadist operation in Mali in March...