Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has urged African countries to take decisive action to stop Russian schemes that lure young people ...

Some West African nations have introduced laws granting citizenship to members of the African diaspora as part of broader efforts toward reconciliation, recognition, and reconnection. These policies ...

Nigeria, the African Union (AU), and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday swiftly condemned an attempted military takeover in the Benin Republic, which saw soldiers briefly ...

Rwanda and Kenya have achieved the highest levels of visa openness, in contrast to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, ...

Saharan Africa rose by 4.3% between 2023 and 2024, according to the World Bank’s latest annual report on debt in developing ...

Namibia just elected its first female president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, but before Namibia, many African countries had elected female leaders. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female ...

Africa's fuel market evolved dramatically in 2025, owing to refinery expansions, price volatility, export milestones, and ...

Nigeria currently leads African countries with the highest number of criminal alien arrests in the US as of December ...