In pursuit of exclusionary policies, Le Pen risks not just France’s economic prosperity but the very essence of its national ...

Nigeria has signed new contracts with its West African neoughour, Niger Republic, and North African partner, Algeria, ...

It’s tempting to conflate France’s military exit from Cote d’Ivoire with its withdrawals from other regional countries. But ...

Niger’s junta has detained former Nigerien president Mohamed Bazoum and his wife at the presidential palace in the capital, ...

France will hand over its only military base in Ivory Coast, its former star colony in west Africa, and both sides say the ...

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...

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

Formed in 1975 to promote economic integration and regional cooperation, ECOWAS has long been a pillar of political and economic authority in West Africa. The departure of these three Sahel countries ...

This week's announcement by Niger's Foreign Affairs Ministry to effectively ban the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) came unexpectedly, apparently without any prior warning. ICRC Niger ...

Morocco is increasingly a focus of European alliance-building and investment, including in illegally occupied Western Sahara.

While Tchangari fought his long battle for the defence of human rights and the sovereignty of Niger, Tiani served the dictatorships in power with the docility required to rise from private second ...