When Amadou Traoré was posted to an army base in western Mali, his family could take comfort that the soldier was far away ...

At dawn on June 1, gunfire shattered the stillness of Mali's military base in Boulkessi. Waves of jihadist insurgents from an ...

Mopti Region, MaliA recent surge of attacks by an al Qaeda-linked group across Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger signals its ...

DAKAR (Reuters) -At dawn on June 1, gunfire shattered the stillness of Mali's military base in Boulkessi. Some troops, ...

France on Thursday formally handed back its last two military bases in Senegal, leaving Paris with no permanent camps in ...

France will on Thursday formally hand back its last military bases in Senegal, leaving the French army with no permanent camps in west and central Africa.

General Abdourahamane Tiani, who secured his first presidential mandate at the end of March, is trying to maintain the ...

Burkina, Mali, and the Niger Republic are among 54 African countries that will be hosted in Nigeria for the African Chiefs of Defence Staff Summit. The summit, designed to discourage Africa-led ...

More than 200 gunmen on motorbikes have attacked a Niger army base near the border with Mali, leaving at least 34 soldiers dead, the country's defence ministry said. The attackers - described by ...

SEGOU, Mali - Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling ...

Analysis - The military-led nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger officially withdrew from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) on January 29. They had announced their ...