The Russian mercenary group – Wagner - is helping government forces in central and northern Mali carry outraids and drone strikes killing scores of civilians, rights groups said in reports published this week.
Following military coups in all three nations in recent years, the ruling military juntas have expelled French forces and turned to Russia's mercenary units for security assistance instead.
The juntas ruling Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso earlier this month announced a joint security force to fight the worsening extremist violence in their Sahel region.
The LIDE Brazil-Morocco Forum in Marrakech, held on Wednesday, brought together more than 100 business leaders, policymakers, and institutional representatives
The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to include Algeria on the European Union’s list of jurisdictions considered high-risk for
In a meeting on the sidelines of the 50th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie (APF), the Moroccan
United States President Donald Trump met leaders from five African countries at the White House on Wednesday in what observers
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