Guinea coup leader given green light to run in presidential elections
According to a list released by the Guinean Supreme Court, coup leader General Mamady Doumbouya, among eight others, was given...
Sahel region
Red cross president speaks on Sudan crisis
Mirjana Spoljaric, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described the situation in Sudan as...
Chad: $31 million loan to boost food security and energy
The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) loaned Chad $31 million, consisting of two concessional loans addressing urgent food security...
Mauritanian government to compensate victims of ethnic violence
The Mauritanian government has announced plans to provide financial compensation to Afro-Mauritanians who were victims of ethnic violence between 1989...
Mauritania: Victims of ethnic violence offered compensation
The Mauritanian Government have unveiled plans to provide financial compensation to a group of Afro-Mauritanians who were victims of ethnic...
Nigeria: Oil tanker explodes, approximately 30 dead
Dozens of Nigerians have been either killed or injured following an oil tanker explosion, according to BBC News on 22nd...
Senegal presents report on French colonial massacre during WWII
On 16th October, Senegal revealed an official report on the 1944 Thiaroye massacre, where French colonial troops killed African soldiers...
Dan Jones: Kalashnikovs, coups, and foreign powers in the Sahel
The Sahel used to be the world’s diplomatic screensaver: always on, rarely noticed. Sand, goats, and the occasional French officer...
Gambian auditor general removed by police in Presidential row
The Gambia's Auditor General has been forcibly removed from office by police after refusing to relinquish his post following a...
Hafed Al-Ghwell: How Sahel became a hub of militant extremism
The Sahel region of Africa has undergone a dramatic transformation into the world’s epicenter for extremist violence, responsible for 51...
Declan Hayes: Why is ISIS here, there and everywhere?
This website's recent report that the Islamic State (ISIS) is particularly active throughout Africa, "the Sahel region, the Lake Chad Basin and...
Algeria shakes up intelligence leadership amid regional crises
Algeria has dismissed its head of internal security, General Abdelkader Haddad, after just one year in office, replacing him with...
Burkina Faso accused of mass killing by Human Rights Watch
The Burkina Faso government and military have been accused by Human Rights Watch of the mass killing of at least...
Ezra Nnko: The nationalisation of natural resources in the Sahel
On 4th December 2024, Orano, a French nuclear firm owning 63 percent of the Somair mine in Niger, released a...
Dr. Tunc Demirtas: Antalya Diplomacy Forum cooperates with African Union
The 4th Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF 2025) opened a discussion on whether diplomacy, under the theme of “Reclaiming Diplomacy in...
