Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa have surged by nearly 60 percent since 2021, though this is marked by widely varying regional threat trajectories, actors, and objectives.

Analysis - The threat of a terrorist blockade of Mali's Kayes and Nioro towns would be disastrous for all three countries.

When Amadou Traoré was posted to an army base in western Mali, his family could take comfort that the soldier was far away ...

DAKAR/TORONTO (Reuters) -A Malian military helicopter airlifted gold from the Barrick-owned Loulo-Gounkoto complex on Thursday, three sources said, days after Reuters reported that a court-appointed ...

At dawn on June 1, gunfire shattered the stillness of Mali's military base in Boulkessi. Waves of jihadist insurgents from an al-Qaeda-linked group stormed the camp, catching newly deployed soldiers ...

The attack on the western Malian city of Kayes on 1 July indicates that Al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM is establishing itself in the ...

Dakar-based research centre says the completed transition from the Wagner paramilitary group to Africa Corps is ...

International criminal gangs have exploited instability in Sahel countries to build flourishing drug and human trafficking ...

DAKAR/TORONTO - A Malian military helicopter airlifted gold from the Barrick-owned Loulo-Gounkoto complex on Thursday, three sources said, days after Reuters reported that a court-appointed ...

At the request of Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, all French military bases in Senegal have now been handed over.

The French military has completed its withdrawal from Senegal, its last West African country with a permanent troop presence, ...