Despite the bitter exit of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from ECOWAS and their formation of the rival AES, the destinies of the two blocs remain deeply intertwined.The split between the Economic ...

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

Smuts is well known in South Africa as a major historical figure. He helped establish South African autonomy while still a ...

The conflict in Sudan constitutes a major driver of humanitarian needs both within the country and in the region. In West and Central Africa, €150.6 million will support the humanitarian response in ...

Soldiers from Burkina Faso patrol on the road of Gorgadji in the Sahel area, Burkina Faso on March 3, 2019. The 2025 Global Terrorism Index released this week has confirmed what many African analysts, ...

Comptroller-general of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, has made a strong case for deeper unity and cooperation among Customs administrations within the West and Central Africa ...

A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

Many of the world's largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds, in what is effectively ...

One major issue during ... They were led by Pacific island nations, whose very existence is threatened by climate change. Other countries with sizable maritime fleets — notably China, Brazil, Saudi ...

One major issue during the meetings was the way the fee would be charged. More than 60 countries entered the negotiations pushing for a simple tax charged per metric ton of emissions.