Algeria’s draft Finance Law for the year 2025 earmarks record spending for its military and defense. The Ministry of...

Algeria’s draft Finance Law for the year 2025 earmarks record spending for its military and defense. The Ministry of...
While the world is focused on the crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, a power struggle continues to destabilize...
(Photo from unconfirmed video showing an insurgent burning the presidential plane in Bamako. The person filming the...
Russian military officials including Moscow's deputy defence minister arrived in Libya on Tuesday after receiving an...
By Aymeric Vincenot: The African Union said Tuesday that it had suspended Niger's membership in the wake of a military...
Suspected Boko Haram jihadists have killed 13 people including three soldiers in two separate attacks in northeast...
By Arezki Daoud: As I have been saying for a while, the Malian junta is leveraging its honeymoon period with Russia's...
Regional rebels in Mali who signed a peace deal in 2015 have withdrawn their representatives from the capital, a move...
West African leaders will make negotiations with the military leaders who have seized control in Niger the "bedrock"...
Morocco arrested 50 individuals, including 21 kept in preventive detention, following a nationwide raid on terror...
Thousands of supporters of the military coup in Niger gathered at a Niamey stadium Sunday, when a deadline set by the...
The United Arab Emirates has sent military vehicles and other security gear to Chad in support of anti-"terrorism"...
By Camille Malpat with Aminu Abubakar in Kano, Nigeria: Political leaders in Nigeria are urging President Bola Tinubu...
By Boureima Hama with Delphine Touitou: Thousands of people rallied Thursday in Niger's capital in support of the coup...
Senegal said Thursday that it will participate if the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decides to...
The military coup in Niger last week raises the question of Europe's dependency on uranium mined in the West African...
By Boureima Hama: Niger's new junta on Monday accused France of seeking to "intervene militarily" to reinstate deposed...
African leaders on Sunday gave the junta in Niger one week to cede power or face the possible use of force, and...
By Boureima Hama: Niger's putschists named an army general as the new leader of the unstable jihadist-hit nation on...
Niger's armed forces chief on Thursday declared his support for troops who announced they had seized power, despite a...
Mali in the Sahel region is facing unprecedented crises. With the withdrawal of France forces and the upcoming pull...
The Militarization of the Sahel By Boureima Hama: An attempted coup was underway Wednesday in the Sahel state of Niger...
Gunmen have attacked two villages in Niger's vast Tillaberi border region, killing a dozen people working in the...
Algeria on Thursday denounced Israel's backing of Morocco's "claimed sovereignty" over the disputed Western Sahara...
Germany and Mali agreed Thursday to pursue a "smooth withdrawal" of German troops from the troubled African nation...
By Arezki Daoud: The departure of the French forces and the forthcoming exit from Mali of the UN peacekeeping mission...
By Arezki Daoud: Military regimes now dominate the governments of the Sahel nations. The countries in the region have...
Police in Morocco and Spain said on Wednesday two people have been arrested in a joint operation by both countries'...
An armed attack in northern Burkina Faso, an area plagued by jihadist violence, has left about 10 civilians dead,...
Armed men attacked a logistics convoy of the UN mission in the north of Mali on Thursday, a source at the UN...
Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar, who backs the politically-split country's eastern administration, has...
Drone strikes early Friday hit an airbase in Libya's east used by mercenaries of the Russian paramilitary group...
By Amélie Bottlier-Depois: With the imminent end of the UN's Mali peacekeeping mission seemingly no longer in doubt,...
At least 13 civilians have been killed by suspected jihadists in chronically unstable northern Mali, elected officials...
At least 31 Burkinabe soldiers and three allied volunteer militiamen (VDP) have been killed in an attack by suspected...
Annual cocaine seizures in the Sahel surged from 13 kilograms (28 pounds) in 2020 to 863 kilos just two years later as...
By Amélie Bottollier-Depois: When Mali recently called for a UN peacekeeping force to depart the country "without...
Armed groups that signed a landmark peace accord in insurgency-hit Mali have alleged widespread fraud during voting in...
Burkina Faso on Sunday hailed the "courageous decision" by Mali's military regime to call on the UN to withdraw its...
Does Saudi Arabia matter? An unscripted discussion between Arezki Daoud and Giorgio Cafiero: Saudi Arabia has been...
On November 9, 2021, Algerian radio station Radio M announced that the group of Moroccan hackers "MoroccoHack Team"...
Media sources say Moroccan soldiers have recently undergone training in China on the use of new generation drones, the...
By Boureima Hama: Traditional chiefs, officials, human rights activists and NGOs have been criss-crossing the vast...