In Africa's turbulent Sahel region, the Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM jihadist group is expanding its influence by repeated massacres, ...

For the governments of West Africa's Sahel region, the stakes are even higher. Gold is a lifeline for the military juntas of ...

Mali, a landlocked nation in the semiarid Sahel region, for more than a decade has battled an insurgency by armed groups, ...

As jihadist violence spreads in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, Western influence wanes, and democracy fades into memory ...

Africa World Airlines (AWA) has officially launched a new direct flight route between Accra, Ghana and Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, marking a significant step in its expansion into the Sahel ...

The hacker targeted a call centre and gained access to a third-party customer service platform containing six million names, ...

Jihadist fighters have launched a series of simultaneous attacks on military posts across numerous towns in Mali - the third ...

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Jihadists attacked military installations in several towns in western Mali early Tuesday, in a new series of assaults in the ...