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Shield and Alert: Sahel Bound
Flashpoints: How Emirati and Qatari Competition Is Redrawing the Red Sea Map
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Flashpoints: Benin-Niger Tensions Deepen as Diplomatic Relations Deteriorate
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Mali: New terror attack in Mopti claims lives of more than a dozen villagers
Sahel: Burkina Faso to raise troop level to intensify war against insurgents
Sahel: Low-key flag-lowering ceremony marks end of French military operation in Burkina Faso
Sahel: Nearly 70 troops killed in two jihadist attacks in troubled Burkina
Sahel: Burkina Faso junta issues decree to requisition gold from mining companies ($)
Sahel: Intense fight in northern Burkina Faso claims dozens of lives
At least 51 soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, the army said on...
Sahel: The sad plight of children in the Sahel’s conflict zones
By Amaury Hauchard: After fleeing the jihadists who threatened their remote village, Aichata Hassan had no idea that...
Sahel: Russia seeks greater influence over Mauritania, offers support
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday offered support for Mauritania in the fight against jihadism in...
Africa security: Gulf of Guinea facing growing threat of instability
Criminals in northern Ghana tried to blow up a bridge using explosives for the first time in a region where the...
Security crisis to worsen in Sahel and West Africa with Russia vowing greater military engagement
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday pledged assistance to West African states battling jihadists, as...
Sahel and West Africa junta regimes seek reentry to regional blocs
Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups called for their reinstatement...
Sahel: Mali fires six senior army officers, including top army leader, as Tuareg groups in the north unify
Six senior Malian military officers, including the army chief of staff and head of the national guard, were relieved...
Sahel: Ministers of three countries controlled by juntas meet after visit of Russia’s Lavrov
Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups met in Burkina Faso on Thursday...
Burkina Faso: New terror attack in Sahel province kills 18 people
At least 18 people have been killed in two attacks in Burkina Faso, sources briefed on the incidents told AFP on...
How the insurgents are expanding the Jihadist frontline to West Africa
Sahel: Russia looks to deepen influence in the Sahel with foreign minister’s visit to Mali
Sahel: Three children die in school fire in Niger’s Zinder region
Three children died and 11 were injured, two of them seriously, when a school made of straw and wood caught fire in...
Sahel: Mali expels head of the human rights division of UN’s MINUSMA mission
Mali: New terror attack kills two in the Segou region
A policeman and a civilian were killed and seven were wounded in an attack in jihadist-torn eastern Mali, officials...
Sahel: Mali court convicts unnamed person in killing of UN peacekeepers, issues death sentence
A Malian court has sentenced a man to death over the 2019 killing of three peacekeepers in the south of the country,...
Sahel: France-Burkina Faso’s diplomatic crisis accelerates
By Delphine Touitou: France said on Thursday that it was recalling its ambassador from Burkina Faso "for...
Sahel: French army to withdraw from Burkina Faso
France said Wednesday it will withdraw its contingent of hundreds of troops stationed in Burkina Faso within a month,...
Sahel: Niger holds activist in air strike case
The head of a leading campaign group in Niger has been detained in a case involving an army air strike on suspected...
Mauritania: Trial over corruption of ex-president Abdelaziz begins this week
By Laurent Lozano and Hademine Sadi: Mauritania's ex-president Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz goes on trial on graft charges...
Health: World Health Organization concerned about unprecedented number “intersecting health emergencies,” appeals for money
The World Health Organization on Monday appealed for $2.54 billion for its work in 2023 to help millions of people...
Sahel: Opposition parties in Chad allowed to resume activity
Sahel: UN peacekeeping mission in Mali at risk amid shortage of troops
Sahel: Jihadist violence intensifies in Burkina Faso
Sahel: Jihadists in Burkina Faso also abduct children and babies
Sahel: Russia strengthens its presence in the Sahel with delivery of warplanes to Mali
Mali's military rulers received more warplanes and helicopters from Russia Thursday, an AFP correspondent noted, the...
Sahel: Troop toll from Mali jihadist clash rises to 14 dead, 31 “terrorists killed”
Fourteen Malian soldiers were killed in a clash with jihadists this week, the army said Thursday, giving a new toll in...
Sahel: Several killed in army-Jihadists confrontation in central Mali
At least 12 soldiers died in clashes with jihadists in central Mali, army and police officers said on Wednesday. The...
Sahel: Mali avoids escalating regional crisis by pardoning jailed Ivorian soldiers
Sahel: Regime in Chad said it thwarted a coup
The government in Chad said Thursday that it had foiled an "attempted destabilisation" plot by army officers and a...
Mauritania: Ex President Ould Abdel Aziz prevented from leaving country amid corruption probe
Mali: Unidentified armed individuals kill five people on Bamako-Segou road
Two firefighters and three civilians were killed on Monday night in an attack in southeastern Mali, the ministry of...
Sahel: 46 Ivory Coast soldiers detained by Mali get 20 years in prison, setting stage for regional diplomatic crisis
Sahel: Security conditions to worsen in northern Mali as peace deal collapses
Almost all armed groups in Mali that signed a major peace deal in 2015 suspended their participation in the agreement ...
Sahel: Worker of Doctors without Borders (MSF) kidnapped in north Mali
A worker with the French-based medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) has been kidnapped in jihadist-torn...