Rabat - His Majesty King Mohammed VI’s Initiative to enable Atlantic Ocean access for Sahel States represents a major strategic turning point for Africa, said Peter Pham, a distinguished member of the ...

Benin issued an arrest warrant Friday for anti-Western activist Kemi Seba for "inciting rebellion" after he supported a ...

The Director General of AGRHYMET, Dr Issoufou Baoua, led a high-level delegation to the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) as part of the Joint Mission on the operationalisation of the Regional ...

A new study forecasts nearly 8,000 animal species could face extinction by 2100 due to extreme heat and land-use changes. Led ...

A perfect storm is brewing of more conflict and fewer resources to prevent it or cope with it, humanitarian workers say.

The Benin events mark the third coup attempt and first failed coup this year in the Sahel region. There have been 17 coup attempts in Africa since 2020, including 11 successful coups. This makes the ...

A statement by the Confederation of Sahel States (AES), signed by Assimi Goita, the Mali junta leader, alleged that the NAF plane entered the airspace of Burkina Faso without clearance. But NAF said ...

The October kidnapping by suspected jihadists of an American pilot working for an evangelical Christian missionary agency in ...

Ivory Coast seeks U.S. military presence to combat Al Qaeda-allied jihadists in the Sahel, proposing U.S. spy planes for ...

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president ...

Burkina Faso briefly detained eleven Nigerian military officers after a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft made an emergency ...

President John Dramani Mahama has extended invitations to the National House of Chiefs and the National Peace Council, to ...