Terrorism Bound

At least 50 civilians were killed and hundreds arrested in central Mali in April during an operation by the army and "foreign" personnel, the UN's peacekeeping mission said Wednesday.  There was no immediate response from Mali's authorities to the allegations, just...

A soldier has been killed and at least 28 "terrorists neutralised" in two military operations in the north and east of Burkina Faso, the army said Monday. The landlocked Sahel state is in the grip of a seven-year-old insurgency that has claimed more than 2,000 lives...

A leading Chad rebel group said Saturday it had killed ten soldiers in the north of the country, a claim the government rejected as "fake news". The Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic (CCMSR) said troops had attacked its forces in the Wouri...

Togo's armed forces said Tuesday they had repelled a "terrorist" attack that injured "several" soldiers in the far northern village of Blamonga on the border with Burkina Faso. The attack, which took place on Monday, was the fifth in the country since last year, as...