Mistrust between the Alliance of Sahel States and Economic Community of West African States countries must be overcome to enable intelligence sharing and security cooperation.

A new phase of rapprochement has begun between the United States and Russia, marked by a phone call that lasted over an hour and a half between U.S. President ...

Spain will urge the European Union’s top diplomat to strengthen the bloc’s engagement with Africa’s Sahel region as part of a ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from haramata, a word in the Ghanaian language Fanti.The wind originates from ...

France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal's capital, Dakar that it has used for decades. The move follows an announcement in late 2024 by Senegal's ...

HyveGeo believes it can turn the desert green and remove carbon from the atmosphere – using biochar and microscopic algae.

Each night, throughout Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, families gather, neighbors share food freely and communities come ...

So, as you savor chocolate, remember the fragile ecosystems behind it. The price of cocoa in early 2025 was near its all-time high, due in part to dry conditions in Africa. Without urgent action to ...

Since mid-February 2025, competing terrorist factions branching off from the Boko Haram organization have engaged in a new wave of armed conflict, just two weeks after the failure of an ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Ghanaian counterpart John Dramani Mahama, on Thursday reaffirmed the need for continued ...

A solar power plant in this rural corner of Mali has jolted a village to life and awakened dreams of steady power in this ...

China has helped remake Niger's energy sector, but pay disparities and unequal employment roles have caused friction.