West Africa and Sahel
Benin’s foreign minister has announced that around 200 West African troops, mainly from Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire, will remain deployed in the country. The...
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A court in Ouagadougou has sentenced Captain Abdel Kader Zanri, the former head of presidential security under former transitional leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, to...
A new humanitarian tragedy in northern Niger has exposed the often-overlooked dangers facing travelers, seasonal workers and migrants crossing the Sahara, after 49 people...
Mali’s authorities have announced substantial financial rewards for information leading to the location and capture of several of the country’s most prominent armed group...
Sources close to the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) have denied reports claiming that senior commander Sidna Ag Hitta was...
Benin’s foreign minister has announced that around 200 West African troops, mainly from Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire, will remain deployed in the country. The...
The armed group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) carried out three coordinated attacks inside Mali. According to local and media reports, one of the...
Led by Minister Alousseni Sanou, a high-level delegation from the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) approved in Bamako today the foundational charter of the...
Authorities in Burkina Faso have released 11 Nigerian officers who had been detained after a Nigerian military aircraft made an unauthorized landing in the...
French officials have confirmed that France provided logistical and intelligence support, including aerial surveillance operations, to the Beninese army at the request of authorities...
Burkina Faso’s military authorities announced that they forced a Nigerian C-130 military transport aircraft to make an emergency landing at Bobo-Dioulasso Airport and detained...
The Sahel States Alliance (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger) announced that it has raised its air defenses to the highest state of alert, granting authorization...
Benin’s President Patrice Talon announced on Sunday evening that government forces, working alongside the army, had thwarted a coup attempt carried out by a...
Niger has accused the French nuclear fuel company Orano of “exploitative behavior” and committing environmental crimes, marking a new escalation in the ongoing dispute...
Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, described negotiations aimed at solidifying the Gaza ceasefire as entering a “critical” phase,...