Analysis - With France fast losing its influence in west Africa's Sahel region and an unpredictable US president in power, will China fill the vacuum?

China stands a good chance of taking advantage of the dwindling western presence in the Sahel region of west Africa.

Across Africa, paramilitary forces are central in stabilizing regions plagued by conflict as well as supporting national ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

As countries continue to pivot from France, Paris too has begun implementing a new Africa strategy launched in late 2024: ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is currently pained by the establishment of the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES: Alliance of Sahel States, ASS).

Visiting Mauritanian Minister of Defense Biba weld Sidi and his Turkish peer Wejdi Gonul inked Wednesday three joint military cooperation accords. The Turkish news agency Ekhlas said that both ...

This is a rare moment in the Middle East. Opportunity outweighs risk, and shrewdly applied American power and influence could ...

Units of the Algerian army raided a group of gold prospectors from the Tindouf refugee camps earlier this week, seizing their vehicle and forcing them to flee on foot into Mauritania, according to ...

KARACHI: A number of Pakistani migrants are feared to be among the dead after a vessel capsized near the Marsa Dela port, ...