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 shift brings Russian support to ‘a more fundamental level’, says Kremlin-backed paramilitary force Africa Corps.

The Russia-backed Wagner Group says it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists ...

Robert Fowler says it would take 'a very large and serious effort to eradicate' Islamic terrorism groups in West Africa, which U.S. military officials warn could attack America.

Cameroon’s overlapping conflicts have pushed almost one million people from their homes. A new report says the crisis is both ...

The latest Most Neglected Crises report on world’s most invisible humanitarian emergencies lists African nations first.

Archaeologists in Senegal have uncovered skeletons with bullets lodged in the bodies during the first excavation of a cemetery at the former military camp of Thiaroye outside Dakar, where French ...

French President Emmanuel Macron allegedly claimed that African countries would be unable to "thrive without French ...

One remark by Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré deeply moved me:“Our generation can’t understand why we’re poor while ...

The Wagner Group has announced it is withdrawing from Mali following what it called "the completion of its main mission" in ...