The sound of gunfire and explosions began about 1 a.m. on August 29, setting off a night of intense fighting…
Browsing: West Africa
Annual cocaine seizures in West Africa have surged from two metric tons in 2018 to more than 30 metric tons…
The Nigerian Navy and Federal Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture (FDFA) arrested 33 people, including three Chinese nationals, in late…
The discovery and dismantling of a terrorist cell linked to the al-Qaida-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) was surprising news…
Plans are underway in Morocco to build the Africa Multidomain Training and Experimentation Center, which promises to be a beacon…
When Civicus, a South Africa-based alliance of civil society organizations from around the world, recently added Burkina Faso to its…
In Sierra Leone, the illegal activities of foreign industrial trawlers are decimating fish stocks and threatening the livelihoods of artisanal…
As the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo grew to become one of the deadliest on record,…
Islamist militants fighting for factions affiliated with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group (IS) are expanding across national borders in…
Guineans received surprising news in late March, when the government announced that it had dismantled a suspected terrorist network linked…