This is the first major attack on Bamako since 2015 when fighters targeted foreigners in a nightclub and hotel.

Local observers describe as "an unprecedented event" the double attack carried out yesterday, September 17, in Bamako, the capital of Mali, on the airport and a nearby gendarmerie base.

The Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al Qaeda’s West African branch, claimed responsibility for a coordinated ...

Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and ...

Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and ...

One week later, and amidst much confusion and suspicion, the Constitutional Court revised those figures and established that Tebboune had been elected with 84.3 percent of the vot ...

On September 9, jihadist militants launched a coordinated assault on several Christian villages in Burkina Faso, resulting in ...

For years the U.S. has indirectly contributed to an outbreak of terrorist violence in a region of West Africa known as the Sahel. Ongoing conflicts in the Sahel region, spanning from Senegal to ...

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will soon launch new biometric passports, Mali's military leader Colonel Assimi Goita said Sunday, as the junta-led states look to solidify their alliance after splitting ...

In 1953, the colonial government decided to create a federation of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland. But, our leaders, then freedom fighters for the independence of this part of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed Ukraine's invasion and capture of Russian territory. He said it didn't really matter because Russia's main aim is advancing in eastern Ukraine.

The Sahel countries will remain a favoured target ... About 60 per cent of Burkina Faso’s territory and about half of Mali’s territory has now fallen outside of government control, the centre ...