West Africa has been home to several powerful kingdoms from the earlier Sahelian kingdoms (Ghana Empire, Mali Empire and ...

Analysis - The political landscape of West Africa is shifting in ways that no one, least of all ECOWAS, seems prepared to handle. What began as a troubling pattern of military coups has evolved into ...

Displacement of Malians and other West Africans away from northbound trans-Sahelian routes explains part of this increase.