The Sahel region of Africa has become one of the world’s most dangerous and unstable security zones. Stretching across states such as Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and parts of Nigeria, the region is now ...
Located in the same Sahel region and threatened by similar jihadist insurgents, Nigeria has some lessons to learn from Mali.
Experts warn rising terror in Sahel is fueled by alliances between jihadist groups and armed factions, worsening regional ...
When soldiers seized power in Bamako in 2020, Ouagadougou in 2022, and Niamey in 2023, they offered a familiar promise: ...
Five years of military rule in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have produced not sovereignty but collapse. No propaganda can ...
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The problem with a US military base in Nigeria

As a regional military powerhouse, Nigeria is an ideal location for a US military base. However, establishing a foreign military base in Nigeria could reinforce neo-colonial dynamics and compromise ...
There is one document that no junta press conference can censor, no hired influencer can spin, and no state television anchor can reframe .
The United States is competing with Russia, China, and terror groups across the continent of Africa in the information domain, but limited resources are posing hurdles American diplomats and service ...
The largest market in Eastern and Southern Africa, COMESA, is seeking Russian support to ensure internal security. Moscow ...
In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has made a rare, unusually candid admission: France may have stayed too long and acted too ...
Professor Kwame Karikari, former Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has raised concerns about the weakness of African media coverage of continental events and ...