The risk is that it rises into something much larger that then presents a much greater threat on the global scene,' on expert told Newsweek.

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It's a turning of the page in Franco-African diplomatic relations. For the first time since the decolonisation of the French colonies in the 1960s, there will be no formal French military bases on the ...

Burkina Faso has opened a judicial investigation into the controversial death of political activist Alino Faso in Abidjan, ...

A Malian court has detained and charged former Prime Minister Moussa Mara over a social media post criticising shrinking democratic space under military rule in the West African nation, his lawyer ...