The head of an alliance of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger says the launch of a joint battalion “must be followed by large-scale operations in the coming days." ...

Let’s see how this impacts the economies and livelihoods of ordinary Africans. In the DRC for instance, the IFC es- timates an SME financing gap of $6.8bn ...

No one knows the true toll of the massacre, and the city remains isolated. Now, refugee camps in Chad are flooded with newly ...

A United Nations staff member has been found dead in South Sudan after being taken into custody by security personnel ...

Bushfires are deadly, they can break out in the blink of an eye and last for days in the vast desert of Mauritania ...

How Morocco plans to use hosting Afcon as springboard to become a global football powerhouse - Morocco will host the Africa ...

Trends make order out of developments. While 2025 saw a medley of individual developments striking with regularity in all ...

Algeria recently hosted the International Conference on the Crimes of Colonialism in Africa (Nov 30-Dec 1, 2025) in Algiers, an AU-backed event pushing for the recognition of colonialism as a crime ...

Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara legitimises occupation and sacrifices Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience.

This intriguing astronaut photo shows a trio of ancient "black mesas", which sit side-by-side in the Sahara desert. The dark structures have enabled a series of rare sand dunes to form around them ...

Few months before the UNSC adopted this resolution, the pan-African body, predicting the direction which the UN winds were sailing on the Sahara dossier, solemnly declared at its Nouakchott summit in ...