Recently, there were shooting incidents in Ouagadougou and the absence of junta chief Captain Traore was interpreted...

Recently, there were shooting incidents in Ouagadougou and the absence of junta chief Captain Traore was interpreted...
Security issues in North Africa have been in the news recently. There is news coverage in Spain about Morocco stepping...
By Arezki Daoud: Since 2011, Libya has been engulfed in a bloody civil war after the death of Muammar Gaddafi. Over...
Five Boko Haram jihadist fighters have been killed and two Niger soldiers wounded in clashes in southeast Niger near...
Libya's unity government has carried out a prisoner exchange with rival eastern forces, releasing a pilot captured...
The Gambia's government on Wednesday said it had thwarted a coup attempt the previous day and arrested four soldiers....
A worker with the French-based medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) has been kidnapped in jihadist-torn...
Amnesty International accused Monday an eastern Libyan armed group of committing war crimes and serious abuses to...
A Libyan court on Monday sentenced 17 people to death after finding them guilty of joining the Islamic State group and...
German forces will stay in Mali until 2024 only if the junta allows them to operate freely and elections are held,...
A minister in Burkina Faso on Friday called a claim by Ghana's president that the war-torn Sahel nation has invited in...
Two peacekeepers in Mali were killed and four others wounded in an attack on Friday, the UN mission said, in the...
By Serge Daniel and Emmanuel Anule: West African leaders agreed on Sunday to create a regional force to intervene...
Six civilians, four of them teachers, were killed in a suspected jihadist attack in southern Burkina Faso close to the...
By Amaury Hauchard Jihadists aligned with the Islamic State group are advancing in northeastern Mali, prompting...
The UN Security Council called Thursday on the parties to the conflict over the disputed Western Sahara to resume...
Armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State group have massacred hundreds of people in northeast Mali this year,...
France urges Africa to break its neutrality in Russia-Ukraine conflict France is calling on African nations to show...
By Portia Crowe Mali's security situation has become "significantly worse" due to the ruling junta's choices,...
Libya's Tripoli-based prime minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah signed two deals with Turkey's defence minister on Tuesday,...
A suspected jihadist attack on three lorries and a motorcycle in western Niger near the border with Mali killed 11...
Algeria and Russia are to begin military maneuvers in the Mediterranean on Saturday, 22 October 2022. The drills will...
A court in Spain has approved the deportation of Moroccan Muslim activist, who is accused of being one of the "main...
Djimet Wiche: Tensions eased in Chad on Friday following a day of unprecedented violence at protests that left around...
Fifteen bodies were found on a beach near the Libyan city of Sabratha, some of them burned, the Libyan Red Crescent...
By Didier Laura: Burkina Faso's new rulers say they seized power to better fight jihadists, but history in the Sahel...
Captain Ibrahim Traore was appointed as president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday, according to an official statement,...
The United States on Tuesday warned Burkina Faso's junta of the risks of allying with Russia, whose shadowy Wagner...
A total of 27 troops and 10 civilians were killed in a suspected jihadist attack in northern Burkina Faso last week,...
Moroccan and Spanish police have dismantled a jihadist cell suspected of links to the Islamic State group, officials...
By Olympia de Maismont with Pierre Donadieu in Abidjan: Burkina Faso's junta leader agreed to step down on Sunday,...
Forty-two bodies have been found in a mass grave in the Libyan city of Sirte, an ex-stronghold of the Islamic State...
By Olympia de Maismont with Pierre Donadieu in Abidjan: Security forces fired tear gas to disperse angry protesters...
Chad on Saturday extended the transition period to democratic elections and agreed junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby...
By Olympia de Maismont with Pierre Donadieu in Abidjan: Shots rang out before dawn on Friday around Burkina Faso's...
More than 200 police officers protested in Tunisia's second city of Sfax on Wednesday to demand the release of eight...
Five people were killed and 13 wounded in gun battles in the western Libyan town of Zawiyah, the latest unrest in the...
A Moroccan prisoner of war released as part of an exchange between Moscow and Kyiv said he wanted to draw attention to...
The United Nations on Monday urged Mali to free 46 detained Ivorian soldiers, after the junta in Bamako attacked UN...
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Hundreds of Boko Haram jihadists have fled a forest enclave in northeast Nigeria, escaping air strikes by the military...
An attack on a military unit in Burkina Faso's jihadist-hit north has killed eight soldiers, the army said Wednesday....
Germany has again suspended its reconnaissance patrols in eastern Mali that are part of a UN peacekeeping mission...