West Africa

On Africa's dry western tip, Mauritania has become an unlikely staging post for Ukraine's increasingly global struggle with its adversary...

Sierra Leone will wait for the results of a recently-launched offshore 3D seismic survey, its first in over a decade,...

Senegal’s public debt climbed sharply by end-March 2025, data from the finance ministry showed, underlining the government’s struggle to balance...

Russia signed agreements to bolster trade and economic ties with Mali on Monday and President Vladimir Putin told the visiting...

The Sahel region in Africa accounted for 51 percent of global terrorism-related deaths in 2024, up from 48 percent in...

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu, the outgoing Chairman of the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, has expressed worry over the...

Mali’s transitional president, General Assimi Goïta, arrived in Moscow on Sunday on a five-day official visit the invitation of his...

The Wagner Group, a Russia-linked mercenary network, is under intense scrutiny as the International Criminal Court (ICC) reviews confidential reports...

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio was chosen on Sunday to be the next chairman of the West African economic...

Speaking at a rally in Abidjan on Sunday, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said that in the coming days, he...