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Mali: Russian-linked Forces Under Drone Pressure in Northern Mali
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Niger Turns to Local Self-Defense Units to Contain Growing Insecurity
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West Africa: Jihadist Attacks Intensify in Northern Benin Amid Cross-Border Insurgency Pressure
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Desert Locusts Stir Fresh Worries in North-West Africa
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Mali Army, Russian Allies Accused of Executing Civilians Near Mauritania Border
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Sahel: Jihadist Attack Kills Local Prefect in Southwestern Niger
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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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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: Soldiers rescue women and babies abducted by suspected jihadists in N. Burkina Faso
Sahel: UN peacekeeping mission in Mali at risk amid shortage of troops
Sahel: The dreadful Koro Toro prison and the brutality of the Chadian regime
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: Jihadists abduct dozens of women in north Burkina Faso
Mali: Security agents remain targets of attacks in Mali, four killed in Segou
Mali: Tear gas fired as influential Malian imam returns
Sahel: Nine killed in mosque attack in Burkina Faso’s Sahel province
Nine people were killed when suspected jihadists attacked a mosque in northeastern Burkina Faso, local sources said ...
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...
Migration: Tragedy at sea with dead-by-drowning of 13 Moroccan migrants in failed sea crossing
Sahel: Ivory Coast hands down four life terms to 4 Mali nationals for 2016 jihadist attack
Sahel: 46 Ivory Coast soldiers detained by Mali get 20 years in prison, setting stage for regional diplomatic crisis
Sahel: Clash at Niger-Nigeria border leaves five Boko Haram fighters dead
Sahel: Three dead in Niger military helicopter crash
Sahel: Top UN rep in Burkina Faso declared “persona non grata”, asked to leave
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 ...
Gambia, another West African nation, headed toward turmoil
The Gambia's government on Wednesday said it had thwarted a coup attempt the previous day and arrested four soldiers....
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...
Sahel: Germany threatens withdrawal of troops from Mali by 2024
Sahel: Burkina Faso-Ghana relations sour over Russian mercenaries
Mali: Two UN peacekeepers killed in Timbuktu
West Africa to have a common military force
By Serge Daniel and Emmanuel Anule: West African leaders agreed on Sunday to create a regional force to intervene...
Sahel: Jihadist groups target southern Burkina Faso, near Ghana
Six civilians, four of them teachers, were killed in a suspected jihadist attack in southern Burkina Faso close to the...
Sahel: Court in Chad jails hundreds for alleged involvement in riots
By Ali Abba Kaya A Chadian court has handed jail terms of between two and three years to 262 people who were arrested...
Mali: Joliba TV resumes broadcasting after two month suspension by junta
Mali's communications authority said Thursday it had lifted the suspension of one of the Sahel country's main news...
Niger has a non-existent economy despite uranium wealth
Sahel: Insurgents make major gains in northeast Mali
Sahel: Lawyers in Chad to boycott trials of hundreds of anti-government protesters
Sahel: Six arrested and massive protest in Mali over video deemed anti-Islamic
Thousands of demonstrators thronged Mali's capital Bamako on Friday to protest the publication of a video on social...