Best intentions to create a green wall to capture millions of tons of carbon while tackling desertification are up against a lack of funding and banditry in Jigawa State, northwestern Nigeria.

The West African nation of Mali, one of the countries comprising the Sahel region to the south of the Sahara Desert, has been fighting extremists for years. But a coalition of al-Qaeda and ISIS ...

Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni, has approved the appointment of Engr. Mohammed Wakil Machina,  as the director-general of the newly established Yobe State ...

Earlier in 2025, political and administrative leaders in Senegal gathered to plant trees in a forest in the country’s ...

Ankara’s reach across Africa now rests less on drones or contracts than on institutions, standards and symbols that quietly ...

The U.S. Embassy in Mali told all American citizens on Tuesday to leave the country due to a severe fuel crisis and security ...

Al-Qaeda is tightening its grip on Mali’s capital in a Taliban-style bid to seize control of the west African nation.

The landlocked West African nation of Mali is being squeezed by a weekslong blockade on fuel imports imposed by jihadi ...

Every person, by nature, is afraid of something. This is how the self-preservation mechanism works. Fear of the dark, heights, confined spaces, airplanes, water - all of these fears are among the five ...

US warns citizens to evacuate Mali as Jihadi attacks and fuel blockade cripple transportation and heighten security threats.

When the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized the capital of North Darfur, they didn’t just win a city, they may have ...