After several weeks of tense diplomatic negotiations and saber-rattling between Niamey and Paris, President Emmanuel Macron’s ...
Upheavals in West Africa mean France can no longer take its "backyard" for granted. By Gloria Aradi BBC News Uganda, Gabon, Niger and the CAR are accused of violating rights or not making ...
Terrorist threats have intensified in the tri-border areas between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso in recent weeks. Over the past week, armed groups carried out attacks in Burkina Faso's Center-East and ...
More than 60 people are feared to have been killed in clashes between Boko Haram jihadists and a rival Islamic State-aligned ...
There will be no sudden silencing of the guns in 2024. Instead, the violence in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia is likely to intensify ...
PARIS – Paris police shot and critically wounded a woman wearing a hijab who was behaving in a threatening manner and shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “You’re all going to die” in a metro ...
Burkina Faso’s humanitarian and security challenges are worsening as the country’s junta-led government pursues an aggressive ...
A drone attack on Tuesday targeted a military base at Arbil airport in Iraqi Kurdistan that hosts troops from the US-led anti-jihadist coalition, officials said. "At two different points, three ...
