Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and ...

The Malian military government has reported that it thwarted a “terrorist” attack in the capital, adding the situation is ...

Burkina Faso's prime minister said on Wednesday scores of civilians killed in an attack by Islamist militants while digging ...

That day in February, the village of Essakane in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso joined a growing list of communities in the ...

Trained by the US and France in warfare, the young Lt-Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba turned on his political masters in Burkina Faso by seizing ... the barrel of the gun, the trio appear to ...

Insurgents hit base in Mali that hosts most of the country’s military aircraft and Russian mercenaries hired by military ...

The West African country’s armed forces said the assault, on a school for military police, was carried out by terrorists.

In order to fight trafficking and other evolving threats, a group of countries in the region – Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Chad – formed, with the support of the UN, the Joint Force of ...

After months of fighting, the jihadist group Islamic State ... IS also announced for the first time a presence in Burkina Faso. The announcements about Tunisia and Burkina Faso suggest that ...

The mood in Zamfara, Sokoto, Niger and other states in the northern part of Nigeria is that of relief. This followed the ...

including Mali and Burkina Faso, where Islamist violence is spiraling. An official in the French military, which has one of its largest African bases in Chad, agreed that climate change ...

"Things are happening; they are finishing (killing) us, and if it continues like this, what will happen to the young ...