The 67-year-old woman, identified only as Claudia ... pressure from Algeria" and the intervention of rebels and Tuareg tribal leaders in northern Mali, Nasr said. The Al-Qaeda affiliate Group ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Five Indian citizens were kidnapped in western Niger during an attack last week by armed men that also killed a dozen soldiers, according to two Nigerian security sources and a ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso are fighting a jihadist insurgency linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State that spun out of a Tuareg rebellion ... with an Austrian woman kidnapped in January and a ...

Timbuktu’s beginnings go back to the 1100s when a group of Tuareg wanderers from northwest Africa made a temporary camp near ...

As heavy rainfall pelts southern Switzerland, canton Valais has issued a weather warning and Ticino is set for a wet Easter.

Davie Matthews Band, Burna Boy, HAIM, Charlie & The Tropicales, Boyfriend and more musicians and bands to see on the first ...

The travel business began to regard Agadez as a zone rouge. A Tuareg woman in Goofat casts her family’s vote in the election of a village chief. Within the past 20 years, the village population ...

As travel warnings ease and flights increase, David Pilling joins a tour operator’s ‘recce’, travelling from the coast into the desert to find dune seas, ancient villages and remote oases ...