Wagner group rebranded as Russia’s Africa Corps. It is set to expand across the Sahel states, the CAR, and Libya.
Stark Rise in Military Coups Africa is witnessing an alarming rise in military coups, with seven leaders ousted between August 2020 and November 2023, eclipsing the 13 coups of the prior two decades. These coups,…
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is in the throes of what Secretary-General António Guterres calls an “unprecedented” six-month exit from Mali on orders of the West African nation’s military junta, which has brought in…
High-stakes arm-wrestling over the future of Niger and the cloud of the Economic Community of West African States. The region is divided, but the African Union stands with ECOWAS on the coup d’ etat in…
The war in Ukraine has not stopped Russia’s activities in Africa. Over the past year, the Wagner Group, in particular, has taken advantage of France’s and other Western countries’ worsening relations with Sahelian states. By…
