JEDDAH, 8th March, 2017 (WAM) -- The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, has strongly condemned the recent terrorist attack perpetrated against a military base on the border between Mali and ...

The withdrawal has hindered intelligence and cooperation between regional militaries, as insurgent groups in the Sahel ...

West African political bloc ECOWAS said Wednesday that plans to establish a long-awaited “regional counter-terrorism force” ...

The latest move, which involves the closure of a Beninese customs checkpoint along the water corridor, has disrupted the flow of goods traditionally ferried between rural communities in southwestern ...

The military rulers of Burkina Faso have turned to a man once known as ''Africa's Che Guevara" as a way to rally a country struggling to defeat extremists and turning away from former Western allies.

In January, the West African nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger completed their year-long process of exiting the ...

Al-Qaeda Affiliate Claims Killing 200 Soldiers in Burkina Faso | Firstpost Africa | N18G An al-Qaeda-linked group has claimed ...

Since the first attack in 2019 ... Benin is developing a military partnership with France. But the already tense diplomatic relationship between Benin and its neighbours – Niger and Burkina Faso – and ...

The AES-ECOWAS split has sparked pragmatic cooperation based on strategic interests between neighbouring countries.Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger's withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African ...

Militant Islamist violence in the Sahel continues to shift southward and westward, putting ever more pressure on population centers in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger—as well as on their coastal West ...