Niger Bound

By Didier Lauras with Amaury Hauchard in Bamako French forces in Mali have captured a man they describe as a "high-ranking fighter of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara" (ISGS), the French military said Wednesday. Dadi Ould Chouaib, also known as Abou Dardar, was...

Three Nigerien policemen and a gendarme were killed overnight Wednesday when their patrol was ambushed on the border with Algeria, local sources said. The men were "killed by bandits near Assamaka", a desert town hosting a security post near Niger's northern border...

By Daphné Benoit French President Emmanuel Macron is set to announce Thursday a partial withdrawal of French troops deployed in the Sahel region of Africa for almost a decade to battle jihadist insurgents, three sources with knowledge of the plan told AFP. The issue...

Jihadists operating near Benin's borders with Burkina Faso and Niger may coopt intensifying communal conflicts in the country's north as they seek to extend their influence, a Dutch security report said on Thursday.  AFP reports that several jihadist groups operate in...