DAKAR, Senegal — Armed assailants in western Niger killed at least 10 soldiers in an ambush on a military unit that had been sent to hunt cattle rustlers in a border region near Burkina Faso ...
As The Washington Post’s West Africa bureau chief based in Senegal, I’ve reported from nine countries across the Sahel over ...
Power has its perks in Niger and the rules are being rewritten by those in charge. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had rejected that original plan for a three-year transition.
Senegal distances itself from colonial past, following trend sweeping across West and Central Africa since 2022.
The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide.
Ivory Coast has officially taken control of the last remaining French military base in the country as the majority of French forces departed from countries across West Africa ...