Niger's lawyers have announced a two-day strike on Thursday and Friday to protest against the military government's ...

Nigeria’s military has eliminated 592 terrorists in the northeastern state of Borno over the past eight months, marking a significant escalation in the fight against Boko Haram and Daesh-linked ...

The U.N. World Food Programme said on Wednesday it had suspended flights to the northwestern Burkina Faso town of Solle after an explosion near a helicopter it chartered injured a crew member and a ...

The manuscripts were smuggled out of Timbuktu under the cover of darkness, stuffed into boxes or sacks and stowed on donkey ...

The Niger State government announced the arrest in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Mohammed Bago, Bologi Ibrahim, adding that the suspect had been taken to Abuja for ...

Fatalities and violent events linked to militant Islamist groups in Africa sustained near record pace, with the Sahel and ...

U.S. top military brass have warned of a growing threat of Mexican drug cartels in Africa, with West Africa emerging as a ...

Tensions are high in Mali’s capital, Bamako, after the arrests of dozens of soldiers in recent days, including two ...

Laurent Koadima yearns for the days when his cotton farm in Burkina Faso allowed him to provide for his family, before ...

African terrorism does not emerge from religious institutions as commonly portrayed, but rather from the political ...

Five men accused of killing 50 worshippers and wounding over 100 others in a terrorist attack on a catholic church in Owo, Southwestern Nigeria face a ...

The U.S. military and law enforcement's counterterrorism efforts are largely grounded in responding to threats, while the ...