With France fast losing its influence in west Africa's Sahel region and an unpredictable US president in power, will China fill the vacuum?

Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

Insurgents killed 25 civilians and injured 13 others in an ambush of a military-escorted convoy near Mali's northeastern city ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannah in the south. It is characterised by ...

and the timely exchange and repatriation of prisoners of war the first issue they address.” The Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and Russian rights group Memorial, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize co ...

Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Chad have joined three West African countries — Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso — asking ... UN operations since the Ivorian Civil War. Therefore, projecting France ...

President Trump threatened sanctions and tariffs on Russia if its leader, President Vladimir Putin, doesn’t reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine. Trump on Wednesday wrote on Truth ...

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose sanctions on Russia and its allies if a deal is not made soon to end Moscow's war on Ukraine. "We can do it the easy way, or the hard way - and ...

Among others, that belt includes Burkina Faso. Russia and the juntas frame the ... investment company “bankrolling the Kremlin's war in Ukraine.” Traore, a self-declared loyalist of Russia ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A mural reading " remain vigilant and mobilised” is seen in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Wednesday March 1 ...

“Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War!," he said in a social media post. President Donald Trump on Wednesday sent a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin telling him to make a deal now ...

In a trembling voice she explains how her home in Omdurman had been raided during Sudan's violent civil war, which erupted in 2023. The family went to Egypt first before paying traffickers $350 ...