Niger entrenched military rule for another five years this week when junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, who seized power in a 2023 military coup, was named president for the next five years. During ...

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 ...

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 ...

Burkina Faso's ruling military junta has arrested three prominent journalists, escalating its crackdown on media freedom in ...

Only 53% of Mali’s population had access to electricity as of 2021, according to the latest data from the World Bank.

Niger's ruling junta said there would be a five-year transition to constitutional rule starting from Wednesday, in an announcement during a signing ceremony for a new transition charter. Junta leader ...