With his counterinsurgency strategy only deepening Burkina Faso's security crisis, Traore has turned to repressing anyone he ...

Trump bans travel from 7 African countries citing terror threats and visa overstays, sparking criticism over inconsistencies.

What did the nations of Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, the Republic of Congo and Sudan have in common, ...

She fled with her remaining family towards Chad until they were stopped by armed men near the border. “My father, my husband, and three siblings were killed in front of my eyes, and I was shot in the ...

Cameroon now finds itself at the epicentre of what the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has termed on June 3 “the world’s most ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is raising the alarm over the deepening humanitarian emergency in eastern Chad, where the ...

The latest Most Neglected Crises report on world’s most invisible humanitarian emergencies lists African nations first.

Every year, the Scandinavian NGO publishes a list of the 10 most neglected crises, based on three criteria for what is ...

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), which was set up to promote trade and good governance across ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger — each now led by a junta — left in January, causing the biggest split to the body since its ...

A charismatic 37-year-old, Burkina Faso's military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has skilfully built the persona of a pan-Africanist leader determined to free his nation from what he regards as the ...

Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley described the Sahel region, which includes Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, as “the epicenter ...