Lack of military coordination and tension among countries in Africa's Lake Chad region are hindering efforts to end a more than decade-long jihadist insurgency, according to local officials and ...

In 2011, when the Libyan regime collapsed, Muammar Gaddafi's moneyman obtained French support to leave the country. Alexandre ...

This is despite the official exit of these three countries from ECOWAS on January 29, to focus on their own bloc known as the ...

In a small village in Niger’s Tahoua region, an 80-year-old man sits in the shade, his eyes clouded by irreversible blindness ...

The U.S. military has conducted airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African ...

France officially ended its decades-long military presence in Chad, its last stronghold in the West African region. The shift ...

H.H. Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Court for Development and Fallen ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa’s Sahel region, while on his way ...

Danso, security and international relations expert, says the exit of three junta-led states from the West Africa ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...