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Sahel: French Special Forces Accused of Direct Role in Benin Coup Response
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Niger Moves Uranium From SOMAÏR Mine Despite Arbitration Ruling
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Africa: With terror groups intensely fixated on Africa, security outlook feels gloomy
Sahel: Violence in Niger as country prepares to inaugurate a new president
Libyan authorities on the hunt for killers of Al Warfalli, arrest suspect
Sahel: Attacks on Niger targets continue
Eleven people were killed on Wednesday in western Niger, a flashpoint for jihadist attacks, when armed men on...
Libya: First group of mercenaries linked to Turkey leaving Libya
Pro-Ankara Syrian militia fighters deployed in Libya have started to withdraw, a French diplomatic source said on...
Mali: French military accused of killing six people in raid on Talataye, France denies
Six people were killed in northeastern Mali on Thursday in disputed circumstances, with French forces saying a strike...
Sahel: Niger’s Tahoua region targeted by terror groups, dozens killed in fresh raids
Libya: Women making modest progress in politics but glass ceiling still strong
Libya: Authorities find bodies of people in Benghazi likely killed execution style
The bodies of 11 people bearing gunshot wounds were discovered on Thursday in eastern Libya's Benghazi, said a...
Repression: How the Egyptian army destroyed the Sinai in the name of the “war on terror”
Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a campaign of forced...
Libya: Foreign meddlers continue to maintain thousands of mercenaries in Libya
Libya's prime minister-designate demanded the departure Tuesday of an estimated 20,000 foreign fighters as he sought...
Senegal braces for Jihadist spillover from the Sahel
Senegal's President Macky Sall said Tuesday that his native country and neighbouring West African states must "prepare...
Egypt-USA: Biden administration maintains support to Egypt’s Sisi, sells him more weapons
US President Joe Biden's administration on Tuedsay approved a nearly $200 million arms sale to Egypt but vowed to...
Libya: Mortar attack on Sebha kills child
The United Nations on Wednesday condemned a suspected "targeted mortar attack" in southern Libya that it said killed a...
Libya: UN grapples with stubborn presence of mercenaries in Libya
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for all foreign troops and mercenaries to leave war-torn...
Sahel: No French troop drawdown from the Sahel, Macron announces escalation ahead
Macron says France to “decapitate” Al-Qaeda in the Sahel France will intensify its efforts to help "decapitate"...
Sahel: UN peacekeepers from Togo wounded in attack near Kerena in Mali
Around 20 United Nations peacekeepers were wounded in an attack on their base in central Mali on Wednesday, a UN...
Western Sahara: Tensions running high as Polisario Front says three Moroccan soldiers killed in attack in Touizgui
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Libya: UN Security Council signals willingness to contain Libyan crisis
The UN Security Council on Thursday instructed Secretary General Antonio Guterres to deploy ceasefire monitors to...
Algeria: High-profile trial of terror group involved in murder of French hiker postponed
A trial in Algeria over the murder of French mountaineer Herve Gourdel by jihadists in 2014 was postponed Thursday due...
Mali: Insurgents in armored vehicles kill ten Mali soldiers in Boni
Ten troops were killed in Mali's troubled central region early Wednesday when their camp came under attack from...
Tunisia: Soldiers killed in blast during anti-terror sweep at Mount Mghila
A landmine killed four Tunisian soldiers on Wednesday during an counter-terrorism operation in mountainous central...
Tunisia: President’s aide briefly hospitalized after opening suspect letter
Libya: Biden administration more assertive on the Libyan crisis
The United States on Thursday called for the immediate withdrawal of Russian and Turkish forces from Libya, after a...
Sahel: Month-long French military campaign in Mali leads to 100 insurgents dead, says France
A hundred jihadists were killed this month in a joint Franco-Malian offensive in the West African country's lawless...
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...
Western Sahara: Morocco-Polisario conflict escalates
Libya: Russian and other foreign mercenaries still active in Libya
Sahel: Catholic priest missing in jihadist-hit Burkina Faso
A priest has gone missing in southeastern Burkina Faso, triggering fears of a kidnapping in the Sahel state, which is...
Sahel: Roadside bomb kills soldiers in south Niger
Sahel: Violence intensifies in Mali as France announces the killing of 15 insurgents
Sahel: Foreign forces unable to bring stability to Mali, four UN peacekeepers killed in Bambara Maoude
The death toll from an attack on UN peacekeepers in Mali has risen to four after another soldier died from his wounds,...
Breaking: Algeria: Terror attack in Tebessa kills five civilians
Tunisia says it neutralized Al-Qaeda cell plotting “terrorist attacks”
Tunisia has arrested a suspected branch leader of Al-Qaeda in North Africa, along with several others suspected of...
Algeria’s foreign intelligence chief fired
The head of Algeria's foreign intelligence agency General Mohamed Bouzit, known as Youcef was dismissed on Thursday,...
Sahel: Reports of 20 villagers killed in Mali region of Bounti
France said on Tuesday it had killed dozens of jihadists in a weekend air strike in central Mali, while several...
Tunisia wants UN monitors in Libya
Tunisia, the current president of the UN Security Council, called Monday for a resolution sending international...
Algeria: Nine killed in army-insurgent clashes in Tipaza, including three soldiers
Libya: More evidence of Moscow’s meddling in Libya affairs: Russians operatives freed in Libya
Sahel: Massacre in west Niger, hundred killed in ‘terror’ attacks
"Terrorists" killed around 100 people in two villages in western Niger, the latest in a string of civilian massacres...