At dawn on June 1, gunfire shattered the stillness of Mali's military base in Boulkessi. Waves of jihadist insurgents from an ...

When Amadou Traoré was posted to an army base in western Mali, his family could take comfort that the soldier was far away ...

West African governments are scrambling to make the most of a new gold rush. But the boom is also exacerbating existing ...

The attack on the western Malian city of Kayes on 1 July indicates that Al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM is establishing itself in the area bordering Senegal and Mauritania.

General Assimi Goïta, Mali's junta leader, has signed a controversial law granting himself a five-year presidential mandate -- renewable indefinitely and without election -- sparking widespread ...

It has become an almost predictable rhythm in many African political speeches, panel discussions, and media narratives that whenever a country is struggling with economic collapse, political disunity, ...

That Trump has a low opinion of Africans generally is known and documented since 2016 when he was elected president of USA.

South Africa delivered their best performance of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations to set up a quarterfinal vs. Senegal.

France on Thursday formally handed back its last two military bases in Senegal, leaving Paris with no permanent army camps in ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. The scuttling of the US Agency for International Development sent shockwaves through African countries, which ...