A makeshift village in the Mauritanian desert shelters thousands of refugees who have fled Mali in recent weeks as fighting ...

The military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched a regional investment bank with an initial capital ...

According to several Beninese and Nigerien sources, the military authorities in Niamey were allegedly warned in advance of the attempted coup in Benin on 7.

The military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched a regional investment bank capitalised at 500 ...

Egypt’s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, voiced Cairo’s support for Mali’s fight against armed groups in the Sahel, as ...

The October kidnapping by suspected jihadists of an American pilot working for an evangelical Christian missionary agency in ...

Islamist JNIM fighters have surrounded Mali's capital Bamako, blocking fuel supplies as the West African nation faces ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday confirmed that 11 Nigerian Air Force personnel and a C-130 aircraft detained in ...

The United Nations has reported abuses on all sides. But the allegations against Africa Corps are new, and the AP is ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- A Nigerian Air Force plane made an emergency landing in Burkina Faso late Monday due to an in-flight ...

Nigeria's Air Force has reacted to threatening statements by neighbouring Mali after a Nigerian military aircraft headed to ...

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