Following decolonization, the CFA franc was divided into two distinct currency zones, each with its own central bank: the ...

Neighbours in the Maghreb are competing with projects and high-profile announcements aimed at countries in the Sahel. While ...

African governments have criticized a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he said that some leaders showed ...

A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz has mapped predicted bioavailable strontium isotope ratios across all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Archaeologists, conservation scientists, and forensics experts ...

The Sahara Desert has grown by nearly 10 percent since 1920. This shows a pressing environmental issue affecting the area. It ...

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As the first light pierced through storm clouds, swollen rivers spilled over their banks, sweeping through villages across ...

Lectures on democratic norms may also take a back seat in Africa’s “coup belt” in the Sahel region — a strip of countries south of the Sahara that are struggling with jihadist insurgencies ...

The Morocco-proposed autonomy plan for the Sahara is a credible and realistic solution to establish peace, foster development and counter destabilizing separatist and terrorist movements in the Sahel ...

“Chad’s decision marks the final nail in the coffin of France’s post-colonial military dominance in the entire Sahel region ... arid region south of the Sahara. The decisions by Senegal ...