Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa have surged by nearly 60 percent since 2021, though this is marked by widely varying regional threat trajectories, actors, and objectives.

International criminal gangs have exploited instability in Sahel countries to build flourishing drug and human trafficking ...

Dakar-based research centre says the completed transition from the Wagner paramilitary group to Africa Corps is ...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty concluded his diplomatic tour of West Africa in Senegal on Thursday, July 24, ...

Mali approved a $238M World Bank loan to build key roads, including Sandaré-Diéma. Project boosts the Bamako-Dakar trade corridor and rural connectivity. Part of wider plan to modernize logistics and ...

The threat of a terrorist blockade of Mali's Kayes and Nioro towns would be disastrous for all three countries.Western Mali, bordering Mauritania and Senegal, is increasingly a target for terrorist ...

Highlights: • The project is expectec to cost around $80 million and cover over 100 hectares in Ngogom, Bambey. • It is led by MidWestern Logistics (Senegalese subsidiary of a U.S. group) with Italian ...

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

France hands over its last West African base to Senegal, ending decades of permanent troop presence amid rising regional calls for sovereignty.

The French military has completed its withdrawal from Senegal, its last West African country with a permanent troop presence, ...

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

At dawn on June 1, gunfire shattered the stillness of Mali's military base in Boulkessi. Waves of jihadist insurgents from an al-Qaeda-linked group stormed the camp, catching newly deployed soldiers ...