U.S., African and international partners should join to help Senegalese defend constitutional rule. The sudden actions by Senegal’s president to postpone this month’s presidential election by 10 months threaten to seriously undermine political stability and
The Horn of Africa States has been battling over the past decades with itself either through internecine intra-state wars or through inter-state wars between some of its members. It is either this or that and
La Communauté économique des États d’Afrique de l’ouest (Cédéao) se réunit jeudi en urgence avec plusieurs dossiers sensibles à traiter : la crise politique au Sénégal et les différends importants avec les régimes militaires au
Dix jours après avoir annoncé leur sortie de la Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique de l’ouest (Cedeao), le Burkina, le Mali et le Niger ont indiqué mercredi qu’ils entendaient partir dès maintenant et non dans
One of eastern Congo’s most active rebel groups is attacking a community considered the last line of defense before the region’s largest city of Goma, fleeing residents said Wednesday, even as the rebels claimed they
Mali said on Wednesday that it would not wait a year to leave the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as is required by the bloc’s treaty. Mali and its neighbours Niger and Burkina
Around a dozen Senegalese opposition leaders have joined forces to challenge the postponement of the presidential election, one of the candidates, Anta Babacar, told Reuters on Wednesday, outlining her plan to fight the delay in
This bold move would advance its security, diplomatic, economic, and soft power interests in one fell swoop with the only possible costs being criticism from Somalia and those of its foreign partners that already treat
If Ethiopia really wanted to create trouble for Somalia, all that it would have to do is withdraw its anti-terrorist forces and cut off bilateral trade, which would combine to destroy that country’s stability and
Authorities in Senegal should hold the presidential election this month as scheduled instead of delaying it by 10 months, West Africa’s regional bloc said Tuesday, as the United Nations human rights office expressed concern about