Former Malian Prime Minister Moussa Mara has been taken into pretrial detention after expressing solidarity with jailed critics of the ruling military junta in a social media post ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso face the task of untangling themselves from West Africa’s main regional bloc, Ecowas, after ...

Livestock thefts along the borders between Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana have exploded, with stolen herds ...

In particular, the smuggling of people from sub-Saharan Africa who set off for Europe without papers is- at least ...

Drought, irregular rainfall, deforestation, and the legacy of unsustainable human activities have left vast areas across the ...

Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has confirmed that the country remains firmly aligned with the ...

The African Union’s appointment of Burundi’s president as its special envoy for the Sahel region strengthens the AU’s ...

Credible sources have intimated the Sahel Solidarity Campaign Network (SaS-CaN) about a clandestine and well-coordinated plan to invade the Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and the Republic of ...

There were also attacks in Nioro du Sahel and Gogoui, northwest of the capital Bamako near the border with Mauritania, and in Molodo and Niono in central Mali, Mali's armed forces said, as per ...

Mali, a landlocked nation in the semiarid Sahel region, for more than a decade has battled an insurgency by armed groups, including some allied with al-Qaeda ...

Jihadist fighters have launched a series of simultaneous attacks on military posts across numerous towns in Mali - the third major assault on the army over the last month. Mali's army said it ...

Seven Malian army positions in western Mali, some near the Senegalese border, were targeted in coordinated attacks early Tuesday, according to a military statement. No death toll was provided and ...