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    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso suspends France 24 news channel over terror leader interview

      Giving air time to the head of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb legitimises ‘hate speech’, says west African nation

    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      News in-depthPharmaceuticals sector
      Gambian child deaths fuel alarm over rules in ‘world’s biggest pharmacy’ India

      Scandal spurs questions about quality control at Indian companies and regulatory oversight in poorer countries

    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso announces French military task force has left the country

      Transitional government says its own troops will defend nation against Islamist militants

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      FT SeriesRussia in Africa
      How Russia’s propaganda machine is reshaping the African narrative

      Moscow taps into continent’s frustrations and historic solidarity with Soviet Union to spread its version of events

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      InterviewFilm
      Alice Diop on her film Saint Omer: ‘It questions the complexity of the maternal bond’

      The director discusses dramatising the trial of a woman who left her child to die — and why it reflects ‘a very French form of racism’

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso orders French troops to leave the country

      Military junta says domestic forces will defend against Islamists amid claims of ties to Russia

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      US foreign policy
      Yellen to visit African countries as US steps up overtures

      Washington is seeking to entice nations away from financial and resource ties to China

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      African politics
      Mali pardons detained Ivorian soldiers

      Gesture by Assimi Goïta resolves dispute amid threats of sanctions being imposed by Ecowas bloc

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Bamako Encounters photography festival pulsates with revolutionary spirit

      The Malian biennale showcases artists from the African continent and diaspora at a precarious time for the country

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso latest to ‘hire Russian mercenaries’, Ghana alleges

      Akufo-Addo tells Blinken that Wagner Group has ‘entered into an arrangement’ with Ouagadougou to fight jihadist revolt

    • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
      FIFA World Cup
      Ruthless England get job done against Senegal

      Tougher challenge against France awaits in World Cup quarter-final

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      Egypt
      Egypt battles climate change as world’s eyes turn to COP27

      Farmers struggle to make ends meet in unpredictable weather that has become the ‘new normal’

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Raffaello Pantucci
      Russian proxies seize the advantage in Africa’s Islamist insurgencies

      As western counter-terrorism efforts flounder, Kremlin-backed militias are offering support in Mali and Burkina Faso

    • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
      News in-depth
      Security forces struggle to cope with upsurge in Sahel jihadi violence

      Latest military takeover in Burkina Faso comes as region faces highest death toll for a decade

    • Sunday, 2 October, 2022
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso coup leader says ‘situation is under control’

      Army captain Ibrahim Traoré’s supporters take to the streets and attack French institutions

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Africa
      Burkina Faso hit by second coup in eight months

      Army captain introduced on TV as new leader after escalating violence

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      The Big Read
      Niger: the west’s bulwark against jihadis and Russian influence in Africa

      The country is emerging as a critical ally in a neighbourhood of failing states

    • Saturday, 28 May, 2022
      Travel
      Discovering Dakar, the coastal capital on Africa’s westernmost tip

      The rally is long gone, but Sarah Provan relishes the city’s laidback streetlife, beaches and markets — plus a pink lake and a North Korean behemoth

    • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
      Architecture
      Francis Kéré becomes first African architect to win Pritzker Prize

      Born in Burkina Faso, the Berlin-based laureate has built both innovative village schools and global prestige projects

    • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      A brewing catastrophe in the Sahel

      Mali’s use of Russian mercenaries complicates an already dangerous situation

    • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
      Mali
      France to refocus anti-terror campaign as it leaves Mali

      European forces will shift support to Niger and Sahel’s coastal states after being pushed out of west African country

    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
      French politics
      Mali coup forces France to reorganise anti-terror operations in west Africa

      Paris wants to redeploy forces to other Sahel countries as relations with Bamako deteriorate

    • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
      Guinea-Bissau
      Attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau thwarted

      Heavy gunfire in capital marks latest instance of political instability in west Africa

    • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
      Shirley Botchwey
      The world cannot afford inaction on the security challenges facing west Africa

      Terrorism, climate change and piracy in the region require a co-ordinated international effort

    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      Mali
      Mali expels French ambassador over ‘outrageous remarks’

      Envoy given 72 hours to leave Bamako after Paris criticises ‘out of control’ ruling junta

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