Since its founding in 1975, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been a cornerstone of regional ...

France was recently asked to leave Chad, and its relations in central and West Africa are increasingly weak. With Russian ...

According to the UN, the region of the Sahel comprises 10 central and west ... (PMCs), under the umbrella of the notorious Wagner Group of mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Growing security threats and geopolitical tensions have reignited calls in Washington to designate the Polisario Front a terrorist organization, citing ties to Iran, jihadist groups, and regional ...

But no such training has been held since the arrival of the first Russian contingent in August 2024, according to military sources.

Jihadists are assumed to be behind the recent kidnapping of a Swiss woman in Niger, the latest in a series of abductions in ...