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Europe’s New Migration Rules Shift Pressure South to North Africa$

The European Union’s revised migration framework, set to take effect in mid-2026, is already reshaping how migration is managed across the Mediterranean. Recent coordination meetings between North African states and Italy are part of the ongoing shift taking place in...

Irregular Migration to Spain Falls Sharply in 2025 With Decline in Atlantic Crossings$

After reaching a historic high in 2024, irregular migration to Spain fell sharply in 2025. Official data show a decline of more than 40% compared with the previous year, driven largely by a collapse in arrivals via the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands. Spanish...

How the US Intervention in Venezuela is Reviving Global South Fears of Power Politics$

The US raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is resonating across Africa as part of a broader pattern of great‑power behavior that many on the continent see as a return to old hierarchies, rather than an isolated episode in Latin America. The...

Burkina Faso Faces New Security Tensions Amid Coup Allegations$

Burkina Faso experienced a sudden spike in political and security tension overnight in early January, with coordinated public mobilizations in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso following warnings of a possible attempt to destabilize the country’s transitional...

U.S. Immigration Policy and the Changing Landscape of Africa-U.S. Travel$

As the United States prepares to implement a new round of immigration and visa policy changes in 2026, the effects are being felt across Africa and parts of the Middle East. What began as a technical overhaul of screening and enforcement procedures has evolved into a...

The UAE’s Growing Role in African Conflict Zones$

Saudi–Emirati tensions over Yemen open a wider question: to what extent is the UAE using proxy actors, media leverage, and selective alliances to reshape crisis zones from Libya and Sudan to the Western Sahara file, often in ways that cut across Algerian and broader...

Sahel’s children are facing extreme dangers, desperately need humanitarian helpF

By Robin Millard: Ten million children in west Africa's central Sahel region are now in "extreme jeopardy" and desperately need humanitarian help due to worsening violence, the United Nations warned Friday. The number of children in dire need of aid in Burkina Faso,...

Mali junta cracks down on social media influencers, arrests Rokia DoumbiaF

A prominent social media influencer in Mali was detained Wednesday after lambasting the ruling military junta as a "failure" with regards to insecurity and inflation, prosecutors told AFP. The arrest of Rokia Doumbia came days after another media figure, radio and TV...

Sahel: Chad’s human rights commission puts death toll in last year’s protests to 128F

A total of 128 people died in the violent repression of opposition protests in Chad last year, the country's human rights commission (CNDH) said Thursday, decrying "human rights violations". Opposition groups called the demonstrations, in the capital N'Djamena and...

Sahel: The sad plight of children in the Sahel’s conflict zonesF

By Amaury Hauchard: After fleeing the jihadists who threatened their remote village, Aichata Hassan had no idea that another mighty challenge lay ahead: proving to the authorities that her 12-year-old daughter existed. Like countless other children in Niger, Nadia has...

Mali resumes train service on Bamako-Kayes lineF

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