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.

Lieutenant-General Olufemi Oluyede, told Governor Mai Mala Buni that the “fire from the Sahel region will consume Nigeria if ...

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.

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

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

The Africa Corps, a Kremlin-controlled paramilitary force, said on Friday it will stay in Mali after Russia's Wagner mercenary group leaves following a 3-1/2 year fight against Islamist militants.

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 ...

Veterans are gathering on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment during World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime ...