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Mali's military says armed men attacked a Mali community just over the border from Senegal. One expert called the development ...

Jihadists waged attacks on military installations in several western Mali towns Tuesday, in a new series of assaults in the ...

Bamako hosted the first Alliance of Sahel States Games. Over 500 athletes from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger competed in ...

Morocco’s $1.3bn Atlantic Initiative aims to link Sahel nations to the ocean via Western Sahara, despite coups, rivalries, ...

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

Hausa, which is spoken by almost 50 percent of the population, has been named the official language of Niger, replacing ...

Mali and Russia have signed a raft of new agreements aimed at expanding bilateral trade and intensifying economic ...

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has assumed the chairmanship of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and ...

What’s the connection between roads and conflict in west Africa? This may seem like an odd question. But a study we conducted ...

Mali and Russia have signed a series of agreements aimed at expanding mutual trade and strengthening economic ties. Among them is a pledge for greater cooperation on nuclear energy, according to ...