With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

The Russia-backed Wagner Group said Friday it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country.

Genetic ancestry is much more complicated than how people report their race and ethnicity. New research, using data from the ...

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), which was set up to promote trade and good governance across ...

In Burkina Faso, pro-government militias have targeted specific ethnic groups - especially the Peul ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing ...

At least 130 civilians belonging to the Fulani ethnic group were killed by Burkina ... aimed at undermining social cohesion” in the West African country. Burkina Faso’s government and army ...

Nigeria, often described as the “Giant of Africa”, is a country ... The three major ethnic groups- Hausa in the North, Yoruba in the West, and Igbo in the East-each had distinct cultures ...

Gustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at € ... and saw people representing various ethnic groups kept in open spaces, like animals in a zoo, presented for public gawking ...

A new generation of Sierra Leoneans is eager to show visitors that the nation's civil war is long gone and reintroduce one of Africa's great ... as the Krios, an ethnic group whose language ...

A new report has found that ethnic and religious violence ... life and family may vanish.” Islamist groups Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province carried out about 11% of the ...