The United States has delivered military equipment worth approximately $2.3 million to Niger in what appears to be Washington ...

Days after armed groups launched large-scale attacks on Malian Armed Forces’ bases, military ruler Assimi Goita on Tuesday said the situation was “under control”, with Russian security forces ...

Niger is accelerating plans to rebuild its uranium industry after breaking with France and revoking the licences of French ...

But what France is offering Cairo in return is thin. The security partnership announced with considerable fanfare amounts to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this image taken from video provided by ORTN, Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, front center, makes a statement on July 26, ...

Unfortunately, that is of limited use when it comes to the big crisis on west Africa’s doorstep: jihadism in the Sahel. Decades of counter-terrorism efforts by America and its allies failed to halt ...

Data lays bare the extent and geographical spread of attacks in Africa’s most populous country ...

Torrential rains during the Sahel’s rainy season (July to September) caused widespread flooding, displacing millions and submerging tens of thousands of hectares of cropland across Burkina Faso, Chad, ...

Several of Mali's major cities experienced coordinated attacks in April by a new coalition of jihadists and separatist groups.As the coalition took over the town of Kidal in the north of Mali, images ...

Maradi, Niger. Army troops walk close to a water tower while on patrol near the Nigerian border in southern Niger. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images) However, the approach in such cases was punitive ...

The Sahel region has become a focal point of deepening polarization between pro-Western “moderate” states and nations seeking independence from neo-colonial influence, relying instead on non-African ...