Togo appears to be openly courting a new confederation made up of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger for whom access to ...

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

Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step.

the Alliance of Sahel States. But the security situation in the Sahel, a vast region on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, has significantly worsened since the juntas took power, analysts say ...

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is the President/CEO of the ONE Campaign, a global advocacy organisation that fights for equity and ...

The countries of the Sahel Confederation AES, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, continue in their project of mutual integration ...

By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ... militarily against the juntas. A map showing that the ECOWAS breakaway ...

The Houthis began targeting commercial shipping on November 19, 2023, and claimed their first attack on a U.S. warship on January 9, 2024. In response, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2722 ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An attack by a jihadi group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country’s Interior Ministry said. The attack took place on Friday afternoon in the ...