The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Transparency International Nigeria have said Nigeria needs to ...

When mutinous soldiers briefly seized Benin Republic’s national television station and a military base earlier this month, ...

The United States has expanded its travel restrictions to include several countries, targeting states aligned with the ...

Military rulers in west Africa's Sahel region may well have celebrated had a recent coup attempt in Benin resulted in another ...

President John Dramani Mahama has called for building a bridge between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ...

Fitch Solutions has warned that Ghana’s economic growth faces risks from volatile commodity markets and terrorism spillover from the Sahel. The rating agency, ...

The coup attempt against Patrice Talon was thwarted with Nigerian military support, theoretical under the aegis of ECOWAS. It ...

Despite its lack of substantive resources, Russia is winning the battle for influence in the information space across huge ...

Military coupists like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré and Mali’s Assimi Goïta have not only attracted domestic support but also regional popularity, lauded for their anti-colonial rhetoric against ...

Ivory Coast wants the Trump administration to station U.S. spy planes in the country’s north to carry out cross-border operations targeting Al Qaeda-allied jihadists wreaking havoc across the Sahel, ...

France weakened Nigeria’s rise for decades. Now that France is retreating, Nigeria’s sudden closeness to Paris risks ...

The Algerian state that they helped create in a bitter anti-colonial war with France became a colonial state itself, they ...