Sahel

After seven months of diplomatic shuttling, Larry Gbevlo-Lartey, special envoy from Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama to the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES), is awaiting final responses...

The rapprochement launched by Ecowas is playing out against a deepening West Africa-wide security emergency. Sahelian and coastal states alike are failing to reverse, or even halt, the...

Less than a month after being sworn in, Benin’s new President, Romuald Wadagni has met with Niger’s junta leader Abdourahmane Tiani and negotiated the reopening of their common...

Niger is the second Sahel state (Burkina Faso was the first in 2023) to announce a draconian national mobilisation. A resolution adopted by its cabinet of ministers on...