West Africa

Recent history gave Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu every reason to stop the attempted putsch in neighbouring Benin on 7 December. Having cut his political teeth campaigning against...

It is now clear that the thwarted coup in Cotonou was much more violent than first reported and determinedly targeted Benin’s President Patrice Talon and the most senior...

Cereal production has risen across most of West Africa and the Sahel but the region’s annual lean season – la soudure – has started, heightening risks of malnutrition....

Known primarily for operating patrol vessels in the Mediterranean and off the West Atlantic at key crossing points, the European Union’s border control agency Frontex is expanding ...

With voting nine months away, the campaigning and political tractations ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential elections are under way. The outcome will reverberate across the region. President Alassane...

The break up of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) into two rival blocs is now irreversible. At an emergency summit in Abuja on 15 December,...