By MondAfrique: A column of armed vehicles from the Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP), the Touareg rebel coalition driven out of Kidal, was attacked by fighters from the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM) on Friday in the Ouagadou forest, while that it was...
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Niger and Algeria recall their ambassadors over undocumented migrants
The authorities in Niger summoned the Algerian ambassador Bekhadda Mehdi on 2 April, over Algeria’s treatment of undocumented migrants originating from Niger. In return, two days later Algeria also summoned the ambassador of the Republic of Niger in Algiers, Aminou...
Senegal: Disgraced President leaves office to find shelter in Marrakesh
By MondAfrique: A short video circulating on social media shows outgoing Senegalese President Macky Sall's departure for Morocco on April 2, the day of the inauguration of his rival Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Morocco officially welcomed the former President of Senegal...
US-Niger relations face uncertainty, with Niamey’s pivot to Russia
Audio version: The news: The visit a few days ago of a US government delegation to Niamey, the capital of Niger, did not go down well with the ruling junta there. Clearly as the junta is paving the way for the Russian military to enter Niger and expand their presence...
Bloody Sunday: The indiscriminate killing of Muslim and Catholic worshipers in Burkina Faso
Sunday, 25 February was a bloody day for religious groups in Burkina Faso. Two attacks against a church and a mosque confirm the utter instability of the northern and eastern regions of the country. In Essakane-village, in the northeastern Burkina Faso, a terrorist...
Niger and Mali up their anti-Western positions, lash out at France and US
Backlash against France continues in Niger, with several local media reporting that security and intelligence services in Niamey discovered this past week "a significant arsenal of war weapons" in a villa and in the premises of the European Union civilian crisis...
Libya: ‘Worse than war’: Flood trauma haunts survivors
By Fulya Ozerkan: Grief etched into her face, 15-year-old Ibrar struggled to find the words to describe her pain at...
Morocco: Earthquake kills hundreds of people in Marrakesh
A powerful earthquake that shook Morocco late Friday killed more than 600 people, interior ministry figures showed,...
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...
Sahel: How to destroy a nation: ordinary Malians speak of their horrific life
By Amaury Hauchard Some are men of arms, who have taken up a gun out of need or for a cause. Others are just ordinary...
Sahel: Cameroon refugees pour into Chad in unfolding violence over water
Footage from the conflict zone By Djimet Wiche More than 30,000 people in northern Cameroon have fled to Chad after...
Sahel: Disasters hit Niger hard
By Boureima Hama Few countries in the world struggle with as many burdens as Niger. The arid Sahel state is the...
Sahel: Artisanal mine at Garin-Liman, Niger collapses, at least 18 killed
At least 18 people died when an artisanal goldmine collapsed in southern Niger near the border with Nigeria, the local...
Sahel: The country of Niger faces Covid and cholera at once
First Covid Delta cases emerge in Niger The first cases of Delta variant of Covid-19 have been recorded in the...
A destabilized region: Awful week in the Sahel
Introduction by Arezki Daoud: For years, several analysts made dire predictions about where the Sahel was headed....
Sahel: Impoverished Chad faces influx of Cameroon refugees
At least 10,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled into Chad from northern Cameroon this week after deadly...
Niger: Torrentials rains and raging floods kills dozens in Maradi and Agadez
Heavy rains that have lashed Niger since June have claimed 64 lives, authorities said on Saturday, as floods and...
Niger: Several regions experiencing severe flooding, dozens killed
Heavy rains lashing arid Niger since June have killed 35 people and made more than 26,500 homeless, the civil...
Mali: Truck-bus collision kills 37 people at Zambougou
Thirty-seven people were killed and several others injured when a bus collided with a lorry in central Mali during...
Sahel: Insurgency is destabilizing Burkina Faso, with mass population displacement
Record numbers of people in Burkina Faso have become internally displaced or fled abroad as a result of jihadist...
At least 20 dead in Mali boating accident
At least 20 people died while nine were rescued following a boating accident on an artificial lake in southwestern...
Covid-19: Mauritania reinstates new measures to contain coronavirus
Mauritania, concerned over rising Covid-19 infections, has banned mosque prayers over the Islamic festival of Eid...
Burkina Faso: Quarter million people forced to abandon their homes so far this year
More than 237,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes in the past six months in Burkina Faso, a country...
Sahel: Chad facing humanitarian disaster
The United Nations on Friday launched an appeal for $617.5 million dollars to help the central African state of Chad...
NGO highlights harmful exports of fish from west Africa / Sahel
Rising exports of fish meal and fish oil from West Africa to Europe and Asia are depriving millions of Africans of...
Sahel: Jihadists in Mali resorting in gruesome practice of amputating hands and feet of suspected thieves
UN peacekeepers in Mali on Thursday offered to help bring to justice jihadists behind the amputation of suspected...
Sahel: Chad braces for more political turmoil
Opposition parties and civil society groups in Chad said fresh protests would be held on Saturday against the junta...
Sahel: Killed in Chad for demanding the rule of law
By Amaury Hauchard - A printed sheet of paper bearing a photo of Adoussouma hung on the crumbling wall at the...
Sahel: The collapsing ecosystem of Niger River
By Amaury Hauchard - Ousmane Djebare Djenepo, wearing sunglasses and an easy smile, stands upright to show off the...
Sahel: Fighting between herdsmen and farmers rages in southeaster Chad
Clashes between sedentary farmers and semi-nomadic herders in southeastern Chad have left many dead in recent days,...
Chad’s security forces stifle dissent in the run-up to presidential elections
The security forces in Chad have brutally stifled dissent in the run-up to presidential elections this weekend,...
Mali: Remains of murdered Swiss missionary Beatrice Stockli to return to her family
The remains of a Swiss missionary taken hostage and killed by Islamists in Mali have been identified and will be...
Sahel: UN says French air strike killed civilians in Mali, France rejects findings
A French air strike killed 19 civilians in central Mali in January, according to a UN report, seen Tuesday by AFP,...
Sahel: Burkina Faso’s Goudebou Camp reopens for Malian refugees
By Armel Baily - "I'm happy -- it's like coming back home," said Malian refugee Ousmane Wanaher, 34, returning to the...
Sahel: Unfolding humanitarian crisis in Niger with growing masses of refugees from Nigeria and from within
The United Nations warned Tuesday that bloodshed in northwestern Nigeria was fuelling an exodus into neighbouring...
Chad regime bans protest before announcing candidacy of autocrat Idriss Deby
Chad's government has barred the opposition from staging protests ahead of an expected announcement by President...
Sahel: Feuding herders and farmers in central Mali endorse peace
Representatives from herder and farmer communities that have become ensnarled in violence sparked by jihadist attacks...
Sahel: Bad governance, terrorism and foreign meddling cause displacement of two million people in the Sahel
More than two million people have been forced to flee their homes within their own countries' borders owing to...
Sahel: Mali police and army repress anti-French army protest
Malian security forces fired tear gas at dozens of demonstrators in the capital Bamako on Wednesday during an...
Chad: Deadly communal clashes in Salamat
At least 11 people have been killed in the latest fighting between farmers and nomadic herders in the southeast of...
Mali’s military junta targets prominent figures in alleged ‘state security violation’
The Malian authorities said Monday they had opened an inquiry into violation of state security, a move that came after...
Sahel: Being a Malian migrant
The age of 43, Aboubacar Traore is trying once again to kickstart his life after three failed attempts at migration....
Sahel: Several killed in ethnic violence in Chad’s Kabbia region
At least 22 people have been killed in southern Chad in the latest instance of deadly ethnic violence between nomadic...
Sahel: 42 human rights demonstrators arrests in Nouakchott
Police have arrested 42 people in Mauritania, rights groups and police said Sunday, after a protest demanding justice...
Sahel: Series of grisly decapitations in southern Mali
Security officers have discovered a fresh decapitated body in the southern Malian town of Fana, a local official said...
Sahel: Mali braces for potential release of hostages by Jihadis
[Photo of French hostage Sophie Petronin] - A second batch of jihadists has been freed in Mali, sources said Tuesday,...
Sahel: Upsurge of malaria cases in Mali
Malaria cases in northern Mali have spiked, according to medical workers, claiming 23 lives in the often lawless...
Power politics in the Sahel: Profile of a Sufi leader
Cattle herders, traders and heads of state are among the people who have sought the ear of the sharif of Nioro, one of...
Niger frees campaigners detained in protests over military contracts
Niger's judicial system has ordered the release of three campaigners held for more than six months after staging...