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Sahel: How Gold and Jihadist Violence Are Redrawing the Guinea-Mali Border
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Behind the Algeria-Mali Rapprochement: Security, Trade and a Sahel Reorder
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North Africa and the Sahel on Alert Over Locust Upsurge
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Mali’s Jihadist-Separatist Alliance Pushes Toward Anéfis as Fighting Enters Its Sixth Day
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Mali: Bamako Under Siege
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Mali: After Kidal, The War Comes to Bamako
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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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Niger ups pressure on UN to vacate the country
Niger's military leaders have ordered the United Nations coordinator to leave the country within 72 hours, blaming the...
Sahel: Touaregs say they seized military site in Gao province
Sahel: Nigeria endorses Algeria’s mediation plan for Niger
UN and AU discuss funding for African peacekeeping
Sahel: French forces are leaving Niger this week
Sahel: 29 Niger soldiers killed by suspected jihadists
Sahel: Niger considering Algeria’s mediation offer and a transition period
Mali preparing offensive against Tuareg fighters in north of the country
Niger: Dozen soldiers killed in Jihadist attack in Tijane
Sahel: Full-blown war in central and north Mali
Mali: Al-Qaeda offshoot intensifies attacks on Mali army
Sahel: Mali buries officer killed crash
Sahel: Mali warns ECOWAS against military action in Niger
Sahel: Niger bans French aircraft from its airspace
Mali: Tuaregs say they shot down two military planes, captured soldiers in intensifying conflict
Sahel: The demise of the ancient city of Timbuktu
Niger and ECOWAS: The cost of collective punishment
Sahel: Growing tension between Niger and Benin
Mali: Touareg group kills five army soldiers in Léré
Sahel: US military resumes surveillance flights over Niger
The United States has resumed surveillance flights over Niger that were halted in the wake of the military takeover...
Sahel: Army-Tuareg war reignites in north Mali
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: The military junta in Mali is now confronted with the realities of war. It is battling on...
Niger says France is planning to intervene to launch counter-coup
Niger's military regime, which took power in July, accused France of deploying forces in several West African...
Sahel: Deadly week in Mali
Sahel: Suspected GSIM militants attack boat on the Niger River in Mali
Sahel: Protests after Chadian soldier dies in attack at French base
Sahel: Mali junta carries out air strikes on ‘terrorists’
Sahel: Dozens dead in clash in north Burkina Faso
The general staff of the Burkina Faso military said 53 people died in Koumbri, near Ouahigouya in the north of the...
Leaders of Francophone Africa gripped by fear, strengthen their own security
Mali: Three wounded in attack near capital Bamako
A policeman and two civilians were wounded when Mali's security forces repelled an attack near the capital Bamako on...
Gabon: People waiting for junta to announce plan in coup aftermath
People in the central African state of Gabon awaited a steer on their future on Thursday after rebel army officers...
Gabon: Another domino in the French sphere falls, Gabon army ousts Ali Bongo
Rebel officers in Gabon announced Wednesday they had seized power following disputed elections in which President Ali...
Sudan: Deadly violence grips Darfur
Sudan's army chief on Tuesday visited Egypt on his first trip abroad since the outbreak of war in April, with the...
Sahel: Mounting tensions in northern Mali, as army strikes positions of ethnic Tuaregs
Former rebels in northern Mali on Tuesday accused the armed forces of carrying out new strikes on their positions,...
Don’t expect Wagner to abandon Africa after Prigozhin’s announced death
Despite the reported death of the Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, Moscow has every interest in continuing...
How Sudan is imploding
War and hunger threaten to "consume" all of Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of...
Sahel: Political situation in Niger worsens with African Union suspending membership
By Aymeric Vincenot: The African Union said Tuesday that it had suspended Niger's membership in the wake of a military...
Sahel: Boko Haram strikes in Konduga, Nigeria, killing 13
Suspected Boko Haram jihadists have killed 13 people including three soldiers in two separate attacks in northeast...
Sahel: Mali government troops and their Wagner allies are now attacking the ethnic Touaregs
By Arezki Daoud: As I have been saying for a while, the Malian junta is leveraging its honeymoon period with Russia's...
Mali: Mali junta face more disgruntled Ethnic Touaregs
Regional rebels in Mali who signed a peace deal in 2015 have withdrawn their representatives from the capital, a move...
Niger: Toppled president said to be “fine, given the situation”
Niger's detained president was seen by his doctor on Saturday, his entourage said, amid mounting concern for his...