Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso face the task of untangling themselves from West Africa’s main regional bloc, Ecowas, after ...

Esri, Space42, and Microsoft launched Map Africa to map all 54 African countries. • Space42 provides imagery, Esri offers mapping tools, Microsoft hosts data. • Project supports development, services, ...

Livestock thefts along the borders between Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana have exploded, with stolen herds ...

The threat from Islamic State and al-Qaida extremists and their affiliates is most intense in parts of Africa, and risks are growing in Syria, which both groups view as a “a strategic base ...

The UAE is Africa’s largest foreign investor, with USD 44 billion in capital deployed in 2024 alone, nearly matching the combined investments of the UK and China. Furthermore, as the UAE’s national ...

The five-year project aims to map 54 countries which suffer from data gaps that the companies say hinder infrastructure ...

Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Space42 and Microsoft to support the Map Africa Initiative. The effort is a five-year endeavor to ...

In a major geopolitical development, Niger has signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Russia, marking the completion of ...

Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa have surged by nearly 60 percent since 2021, though this is marked by widely varying regional threat trajectories, actors, and ...

The Easter period usually offers a rare respite in Gedeb, in Ethiopia's deeply troubled north, but on April 17 death rained ...