A week after an attempted coup in Burkina Faso, the situation remains tense in Ouagadougou, particularly among the armed ...

A Leader Who Puts Africa First: Traoré has kicked out French troops, stopped France from controlling Burkina Faso’s Gold ...

Compared to the chaotic state of Western nations, Russia looks to Africans like a stable, reliable power — whatever internal ...

Analysis - The latest tensions are a wake-up call for the AU, which has lost influence in the Sahel-Saharan region.

The tri-border region has long been plagued by extremist violence. Just last month, a jihadi group attacked a village there, leaving 44 civilians dead, an attack the army attributed to the Islamic ...

A surprise attack in western Niger by armed assailants has resulted in the deaths of 12 soldiers. The incident occurred near ...

Niger's army says an attack by armed men in western Niger has left 12 soldiers dead in a border area that has long been a hotbed of extremist violence ...

Twelve Nigerien soldiers have been killed in an attack in the west of the Sahel country and two suspects have been arrested, the army said in a statement seen by Reuters on Saturday. The attack took ...

Twelve Nigerien soldiers were killed in a surprise attack in the Sahel region, near Niger's tri-border area with Mali and ...

Despite its ‘overarching’ achievements over the past 50 years (half a century) since its establishment, the Economic ...

An admission has been made on April 23 by the Government of Benin that 54 soldiers lost their lives in a recent assault by ...

Diplomatic tensions between Benin and its junta-led Sahel neighbours Niger and Burkina Faso have led to a security vacuum ...