Mali and the larger Sahel region of West Africa have been in the grips of Islamist violence as affiliates of terrorist groups ...

Suspected jihadists in central Mali are holding more than 110 civilians they abducted six days ago, local sources told AFP on Monday. Three buses carrying the civilians were stopped on April 16 by ...

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Africa has the fastest growing, youngest population of any continent. By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African. Early tremors of this seismic change are already registering around ...

U.S. officials are starting to accept that their strategy of pressing Niger and other war-battered African countries to break off ties with Moscow and embrace democratic norms is no longer working.

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27, when they remember their country's pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the ...

In the new era of great power competition, Africa is one place where the U.S. is losing. Russia is fast making gains in Niger, and the consequences could stretch beyond Africa’s unstable Sahel ...

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