While the US has sought to expand its presence across Africa, its influence in the West African Sahel region has declined, writes Farouk Hussein Abu Deif ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

Hamas is rushing to reassert control over the territory it has ruled since 2007. Its leaders are exuberant—at least in public ...

France’s military withdrawals provide West African states with a long overdue opportunity to assert their sovereignty. But ...

As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to have to fight their way through thousands of troops from Burundi, ramping ...

That has created a chasm between South Africa's diplomatic ambitions and its capacity to back up its words with military action. "South Africa is trying to act as though it still has the military ...

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...

And the Congolese military ... rich Congo, have said they plan to march to the capital, Kinshasa, nearly a thousand miles to the west, and take over the whole country. A map of Africa highlights ...

Most of Ukraine’s military aid, however, has come from the Pentagon ... said the U.S. freeze would hurt lives around Africa. U.S. support helped West Africa recover from years of vicious ...

Negotiations failed to change their minds. By Saikou Jammeh Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Three military-ruled countries have officially withdrawn from the West African regional alliance known as ...

France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities as African nations have grown closer to Moscow.