By Ben Aris in Belrin Moscow’s expanding presence in Africa has largely unfolded in silence, but the shift it represents is ...

THE BOSS of Barrick Gold, a Canadian mega-miner and the world’s second-largest gold producer, is no stranger to bust-ups with ...

Africa is no longer a peripheral arena—it’s becoming a central platform for Moscow’s global strategy. The West should beware.

Libya's robust infrastructure for human traffickers and smugglers serves domestic and Russian enterprises, observers say. What can the European Union do to take control?

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 ...

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

DAKAR, April 9, 2025 - The governments of the Sahel countries — Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Chad — gathered in Dakar for a high-level forum marking the tenth anniversary of the ...

The creation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) by Burkina Faso ... the three countries announced their withdrawal from ECOWAS in January 2024, accusing the group of being ineffective in fighting ...

The creation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES ... their withdrawal from ECOWAS in January 2024, accusing the group of being ineffective in fighting the jihadist insurgency in the region ...

While relations between Algiers and Bamako remains unpredictable, several Sahel and Algeria observers contacted by RFI say they do not believe the spat will not be militarised. However dialogue ...