MEMO attended the 31st African Union Summit held in Nouakchott, Mauritania and talked with Niger's president, Mahamadou Issoufou

The first time Talal Hasan met Omar Almahel they slept side by side on a piece of cardboard at a train station in Brussels. Not long after this the...

The forces of Khalifa Haftar, who is backed by the Libyan House of Representatives in Tobruk, have given Africans in the south of the country nine days to leave...

Turkey is set to donate $5 million to aid in the fight against terrorism and trafficking in the turbulent Sahel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced yesterday during his...

Authorities in eastern Libya have arrested two Chadian nationals for posing as the Chadian ambassador and a foreign diplomat. They were arrested by police forces in the town of...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, on Sunday for a two-day visit aimed at deepening the relations between the two countries. Arriving in the Sudanese...

President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday France stood ready if needed to strengthen its military force fighting alongside African troops against insurgents in the Sahel. France has been seeking...

The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed full enforcement of the latest version of the Trump administration’s travel ban. The justices ruled the policy could be fully enforced even as legal...

The European Union, United Nations and African Union have agreed to an emergency plan to dismantle people-smuggling networks and repatriate stranded migrants, in an effort to ease a human...

The United States currently funds more than a quarter of the $7.3 billion UN peacekeeping budget

Cattle herders in West Africa are facing a severe lean season this year due to poor rains and insufficient plant growth, stoking the risk of conflict as they change...

Sudan today announced that it closed its land borders with Libya, Chad and South Sudan to prevent arms smuggling. Vice President Hassabu Mohamed Abdalrahman said: “We have closed our...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the governments of Sudan and Chad yesterday signed a tripartite agreement for the voluntary repatriation of refugees from both countries....