Security issues in North Africa have been in the news recently. There is news coverage in Spain about Morocco stepping...
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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...
The departure of the French and American troops from Niger created an opportunity for the Russians to replace them....
By MondAfrique: A column of armed vehicles from the Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP), the Touareg rebel coalition...
Audio version: The news: The visit a few days ago of a US government delegation to Niamey, the capital of Niger, did...
Sunday, 25 February was a bloody day for religious groups in Burkina Faso. Two attacks against a church and a mosque...
By Mondafrique: The war in Gaza is forcing feuding States in the Middle East and in the Gulf to seek the path of...
The North Africa Journal: With global attention focused on the Middle East and the Ukrainian crises, the Western...
By Arezki Daoud: Since Russia started its war on Ukraine, we have been told that Moscow was headed towards disaster....
In a year-end offensive carried out by the Burkina Faso military from December 23, 2023 to January 2, 2024 in the East...
The North Africa Journal - The new year began in earnest in Burkina Faso, with fresh efforts from the government to...
@northafricajournal #Egypt downs #drone in #Sinai Peninsula near #Israel ♬ original sound - The North Africa Journal...
The military rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have banded together in a joint defence pact to fight jihadists...
The military leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger said Saturday they would quit the G5 anti-jihadist force in Africa's...
Niger's military leaders said Monday that they were ending two European Union security and defence missions in the...
Mali's army has retaken the town of Kidal from Tuareg-dominated rebels. Here we look at the significance of the place...
Jubilant Malians have taken to the streets and the ruling junta issued triumphant statements saying the military's...
UN peacekeepers in Mali announced Monday their pullout has started from two camps in the tense Kidal region, opening a...
Relief convoys which have been waiting for days in Egypt were Tuesday headed towards the Rafah border crossing with...
A Malian army convoy was moving closer towards the northern rebel stronghold Kidal on Tuesday, following a resumption...
Tuareg-dominated separatist groups said on Saturday that they had inflicted heavy losses on the Malian military in an...
@northafricajournalMali #Lere: An attack on two #military camps in northern #Mali claimed by #Touaregs killed five...
When jihadists in Mali announced they would blockade the ancient city of Timbuktu, residents thought it was just...
An attack on two military camps in northern Mali claimed by armed rebel groups killed five soldiers, while 11 others...
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: The military junta in Mali is now confronted with the realities of war. It is battling on...
A Polisario Front commander and three Sahrawi fighters were killed Friday in the disputed Western Sahara as a United...
Former rebels in northern Mali on Tuesday accused the armed forces of carrying out new strikes on their positions,...
Russian military officials including Moscow's deputy defence minister arrived in Libya on Tuesday after receiving an...
By Aymeric Vincenot: The African Union said Tuesday that it had suspended Niger's membership in the wake of a military...
By Arezki Daoud: As I have been saying for a while, the Malian junta is leveraging its honeymoon period with Russia's...
West African leaders will make negotiations with the military leaders who have seized control in Niger the "bedrock"...
By Camille Malpat with Aminu Abubakar in Kano, Nigeria: Political leaders in Nigeria are urging President Bola Tinubu...
Senegal said Thursday that it will participate if the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decides to...
By Boureima Hama: Niger's new junta on Monday accused France of seeking to "intervene militarily" to reinstate deposed...
By Boureima Hama: Niger's putschists named an army general as the new leader of the unstable jihadist-hit nation on...
Niger's armed forces chief on Thursday declared his support for troops who announced they had seized power, despite a...
By Arezki Daoud: The departure of the French forces and the forthcoming exit from Mali of the UN peacekeeping mission...
At least 31 Burkinabe soldiers and three allied volunteer militiamen (VDP) have been killed in an attack by suspected...
Annual cocaine seizures in the Sahel surged from 13 kilograms (28 pounds) in 2020 to 863 kilos just two years later as...
Armed groups that signed a landmark peace accord in insurgency-hit Mali have alleged widespread fraud during voting in...
Israeli soldiers will for the first time take part in military exercises in Morocco when the biggest war games event...
Three Israeli soldiers and a member of Egypt's security forces were killed Saturday in a rare exchange of fire near...
Gunshots rang out in Libya's capital on Monday following hours of fighting between two armed groups both aligned with...