African countries depend on major road corridors, key drivers of economic activity. Extensive efforts have been made in recent years to remove trade barriers and foster regional integration, but there ...

Standing on the stony ground in the bustling Fifa Park car lot, Rokeeb Yaya is haggling over the price of a dark red car. It is one of a couple hundred vehicles, parked in long lines stretching out ...

Much of the rich world has turned its back on Africa and is no longer shy about it. President Donald Trump’s drastic aid cuts are well documented, but Britain and the EU have also trimmed their ...

Guinea-Bissau takeover is the latest in the Sahel region, which has quietly become global epicentre of terrorism ...

Suppose one were to plot out on a map the progress of two jihadist insurgencies in Africa: the Islamic insurgency in the Maghreb and the Boko Haram insurgency. The former began in Algeria after the ...

The partnership between Russia’s space agency and the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger deepens these countries’ turn toward the Kremlin in their effort to fight off Islamist insurgencies.