In the 90's African countries embraced democratic governance and it was believed that the continent has moved from governance by military regimes and dictatorship to democracy. The ... Read more »
The meeting being held by West Africa leaders who form part of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) may - besides taking military action if the Niger president is ... Read more »
Niger's military leadership has backed a group of soldiers who say they've seized power from President Mohamed Bazoum, and warned against foreign intervention, Deutsche Welle Read more »
The West African nation of Niger and China have been discussing deals that include an industrial park, an oil pipeline and a uranium mine, Hamid Mahmud reports for Voice of ... Read more »
Africans are facing some of the greatest challenges of our time. Food insecurity, resulting from flooding and drought, along with conflict, the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, ... Read more »
Residents in the capital city of Niamey had mostly positive things to say about the first visit by a U.S. Secretary of State. Secretary Antony Blinken used the trip to announce ... Read more »
Hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans are heading back to their homelands amid a spike in vigilante violence - including the stabbings of African migrants. Despite their ordeal, they ... Read more »
United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Addis Ababa on March 14 and 15 to hold talks with the Ethiopian government and leaders of the Tigrayan forces to discuss ... Read more »
Just ten years after the rescue of Mali's official government by the French military Operation Serval, renamed Operation Barkhane a few months later, the security situation in that ... Read more »
A new Human Rights Watch report says that in nearly one-third of African countries, teenage girls who become pregnant face "significant legal and policy barriers" to continuing ... Read more »
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