There have been more chatter and speculations about the activities of Russia’s mercenaries, formerly known as the...
There have been more chatter and speculations about the activities of Russia’s mercenaries, formerly known as the...
Russia is seeing a good "return on its investment" in the Sahel. Both Mali and Niger have cut their ties with Ukraine...
Ukraine has a good reason to sabotage Russia’s operations around the world. They are at war. And so it is no surprise...
Niamey, Jan 12, 2020 - A jihadist attack on a military camp in western Niger three days ago left 89 soldiers dead,...
Metekel, Ethiopia, Jan 7, 2020 - Cell phone batteries constantly dying, health centres bereft of modern equipment, a...
Cairo, Jan 7, 2020 - Egypt's flag carrier has suspended flights to the Iraqi capital for three days for security...
Bamako, Jan 6, 2020 (AFP) - Five Malian soldiers were killed Monday in a roadside bomb attack, a government...
Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar announced this morning (Monday, 6 January) his troops entered the coastal city of Sirte...
Tripoli, Jan 4, 2020 - At least 28 people were killed and dozens injured on Saturday in an air strike on a military...
Bamako, Dec 30, 2019 - Malian authorities and the United Nations have opened investigations into the alleged...
Algeria has concluded three contracts for the purchase of Russian fifth-generation stealth fighter Su-57 and the Su-34...
The Sahel is experiencing utter destabilization. Almost all countries of the region, starting with Mali, then Niger, ...
Libya has long been a battleground pitting several regional powers against one another. That competition for influence...
Paris, Dec 23, 2019 - France's armed forces said Monday they had carried out a drone strike for the first time, during...
Bamako, Dec 20, 2019 - Two soldiers and two civilians have been killed and another six people injured in separate...
Fourteen people were killed and 13 were missing after Boko Haram jihadists attacked a fishing village in western Chad...
Algiers, Dec 17, 2019 - Students, teachers and other demonstrators rallied in their thousands in Algeria's capital...
Boko Haram jihadists gunned down 19 cattle herders Saturday in northeast Nigeria, civilian militia sources and...
Moroccan anti-terror police announced Sunday the arrest of an alleged jihadist who "planned a suicide attack". The...
Tripoli, Dec 12, 2019 - Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar announced a "decisive battle" for the capital Tripoli...
Niamey, Dec 10, 2019 - The United States is donating $21 million (19 million euros) of military equipment to Niger...
Niamey, Dec 11, 2019 - Three soldiers and 14 attackers died in an assault earlier this week on an army camp in western...
Paris, Nov 29, 2019 - An ambush by Islamic State jihadists did not cause a collision between two French army...
Tripoli, Nov 27, 2019 - Libya's National Oil Corporation said fighting triggered a suspension of production Wednesday...
Paris, Nov 26, 2019 (By Daphne Benoit and Jérôme Rivet) - Thirteen French soldiers were killed in Mali when two...
Since Donald Trump became President of the United States, North Africa and the African continent in general, have not...
On the Mali-Burkina border, Burkina Faso, Nov 25, 2019 (By Amaury HAUCHARD) - It was the heart of the forest and...
Cairo, Nov 17, 2019 - An Egyptian military court sentenced a Libyan man to death and 32 other defendants to life over...
Tripoli, Nov 17, 2019 - Thirteen European diplomatic missions in Libya, including the EU delegation, demanded Sunday...
Bamako, Nov 11, 2019 - Mali is conducting a giant operation against jihadists in the country's troubled centre using...
By Arezki Daoud - 12 November 2019 - An Algerian court handed over one-year jail terms to 28 demonstrators for the...
MALI IN CHAOSMopti, Mali, Nov 5, 2019 - By Celia Lebur - Untroubled by time, the mighty Niger River glides through the...
Russia on Thursday denied US media reports that it had sent mercenaries from private military group Wagner to fight in...
Ethiopia's construction of a massive power dam on the Blue Nile is raising tensions with Egypt, which depends on the...
France on Tuesday announced the death of a top jihadist leader in Mali as it sought to reassure the West African...
France's defence minister said Tuesday she was "optimistic" European forces would step up to bolster the fight against...
A "terrorist attack" on a military post in strife-torn northeastern Mali has left 49 soldiers dead, the army said...
Ouagadougou, Nov 1, 2019 - A police commissioner was killed during a brutal assault by gunmen on a police station in...
Admiral Kamel Akrout, the first national security advisor to the Tunisian president resigned on Tuesday, October 29,...
The Tunisian security services arrested on 29 October in Kairouan, a woman sentenced in absentia to 6 years in prison,...
The Moroccan authorities arrested seven Moroccan nationals suspected of plotting attacks in the kingdom. The police...
Suspected jihadists have freed at least five teachers kidnapped last week at their school in central Mali for using...
Bamako, Oct 28, 2019 - A Togolese peacekeeper who was seriously wounded during an October 6 attack in central Mali by...