Breaking: ECOWAS may deploy stablising force to countries under coup threat
•West Africa regional bloc agree to deploy force to stabilize democracy in countries under threat of military take-over Mukaila Ola…
US security assistance to Burkina Faso laid the groundwork for a coup
An honor guard stands at attention as Col. Maj. Gilbert Ouédraogo takes command as army chief of staff in Ouagadougou,…
Mali’s Junta Won’t Budge
Thousands of people took to the streets this month in Mali heeding the government’s calls to protest economic sanctions leveled…
The supply chain crisis and the future of globalization
Packing masks in Pflugerville, Texas, January 2022Nuri Vallbona / Reuters
Nigeria’s transport minister just said the quiet part out loud: China’s no longer funding large-scale railways in Africa
File photo of Nigerian Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP
Ethiopia: Abiy and Tedros’ growing tensions
Abiy Ahmed and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. © Montage JA; REA; Fred Merz/Monday13 for JA
Chinese corporate transparency is far better than America’s
A woman looks at an HSBC logo in Hong Kong on Nov. 10, 2011. AARON TAM/AFP/GETTYIMAGES
Tokyo, Beijing, and new tensions over Taiwan
Map of China, Japan and Taiwan
Why NATO has become a flash point with Russia in Ukraine
A NATO sign marks the seventieth anniversary of the Atlantic alliance in Kyiv, Ukraine. Pierre Crom/Getty Images
Non-NATO ally? Qatar has officially come back in from the cold
President Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in the Oval Office of the…