Russian mercenary organization Wagner Group is being replaced in the Sahel by the state-controlled Africa Corps. However, it seems unlikely…
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It is around midnight and a Namibian vessel’s radar detects a foreign trawler notorious for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing…
Mustafa Ibrahim was in a financial bind. The 48-year-old was a welder in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, but business…
Since arriving in Mali almost four years ago, Russia’s Wagner Group mercenaries have kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured hundreds of Malian…
Regardless of whether Awamo Mitterrand was tricked or coerced into enlisting in the Russian Army, he was sent to the…
Burkina Faso’s leader appeared in a music video with global superstar Beyoncé. Or did he? In fact, the video, which…
The military government of Niger has terminated its intelligence cooperation with Russia and Turkey, saying the surveillance systems and related…
Throughout West Africa it has become difficult to avoid the blitz of viral videos, memes and social media posts glorifying…
A young Togolese student was lured to Russia last year by a scholarship offer. But instead of studying at a…
At a market in the town of Sébabougou, in a part of western Mali that has been contested by terrorists…