Instability from Latin America to the Middle East risks spreading as conflicts, proxies, and shifting alliances shape 2026.

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president ...

Mali’s ruling junta and Canadian miner Barrick have reached an agreement to resolve a tax dispute involving one of Africa’s largest gold mining complexes. The agreement ends a two-year ...

It began quietly mdash; a Nigerian aircraft making an unremarkable landing under circumstances that are still being contested ...

Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding ...

Explore how the Guinea-Bissau coup is part of a seismic shift in West Africa, where 'barracks logic' challenges fragile ...

West Africa stands at a critical moment—fragile, fast-moving, and unforgiving. Despite years of regional diplomacy, the Economic Community of West ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and has ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

A history of enmity between Thailand and Cambodia over competing territorial claims has broken into open combat again, just a ...

CITES CoP20 delivered positive outcomes for EIA’s focal species, which mostly involved preventing any backwards slide in the ...