Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

Covering the World's Second-largest Continent Welcome to our brand-new show - Firstpost Africa - that brings you stories from ...

Covering the World's Second-largest Continent Welcome to our brand-new show - Firstpost Africa - that brings you stories from ...

For instance, Russia is implicated in the 2020 and 2021 coups in Mali and the Burkina Faso coup. The UK, the US, China and France are all interested in Africa. Since the expulsion of France from ...

The trend towards resource nationalism is most advanced in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the heart of Africa’s “coup belt” and a zone increasingly aligned with Russia and hostile to the West.

As analysts warn of a ‘creeping coup d’etat’ in Ethiopia’s northernmost region, both Ethiopia and Eritrea are reportedly ...

To make democracy work in Africa, a nation-building elite is needed to strengthen the basic laws of society by exemplary ...

Burkina Faso is among Africa’s poorer countries ... In the early days after the coup, Traoré said that the soldiers would waste no time getting Burkina Faso back on track, and that he would ...

Less than two years after President Bola Tinubu removed the fuel subsidy in Nigeria, the effect of the decision is now being felt deeply by neighbouring Niger Republic.

Spanning three countries, the vast W-Arly-Pendjari Complex is being used to facilitate organised crime, terrorism and local ...

historian Susan William notes that five weeks before the coup against Nkrumah on 24 February 1966, a new US ambassador was appointed to Accra. It was Franklin Williams, an African-American who had ...

At a time when Africa is convulsed by various threats and American interests could be at risk, United States influence is in retreat.