Western forces have largely beat a hasty retreat from Africa’s coup-prone Sahel region in recent years. In 2022, French forces departed Mali as insurgents made incursions into the capital, Bamako. A United…
The conflict in Sudan is often described as a civil war between the government-backed Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). But the most consequential drivers sustaining the…
The country’s counterterrorism strategy cannot address the range of root causes driving conflict across different regions. Editor’s Note: Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, is known as a terrorism hotspot. Steven Hendrix,…
Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin’s offensive in Mali could be just the beginning. Editor’s Note: Although the threat from the Islamic State and other jihadist groups appears to be declining in the Middle…
Africa’s data protection laws are halting billion-dollar U.S. health aid agreements. The same laws should be leveraged to renegotiate new terms. When Kenya’s High Court suspended a bilateral health agreement with the United States…
Throughout history, most of the world’s genomic research has relied on DNA data from people of European ancestry. A genome is the full DNA code of about three billion (a thousand million)…
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday concluded his Africa visit with talks in Ethiopia that covered, among other issues, the longstanding question of Africa’s representation on the U.N. Security Council. Macron held…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — French and African leaders have announced more than $11 billion in renewable energy investments across Africa, underscoring the continent’s growing importance in the global push for cleaner energy…
Nigeria’s military has again killed a large number of civilians with an airstrike it says was targeting militants instead, a mistake that has occurred a number of times in recent years and…
The 2026 Africa-France summit in Nairobi on May 11-12 is the first to be held in an African country that is not a former French colony. It is also the first to…
