The village head of Agoi Ibami is Yakurr LGA of Cross River State, Attah Charles Ikum Ujong has confirmed that there has been ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way to interview one of the group's leaders in northern Mali ...

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

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The West Africa Democracy Solidarity (WADEMOS) Network has appealed to ECOWAS and the Alliance of Sahelian States, to enhance ...

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 ...

Habboub Cherkaoui, head of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, said it foiled a 'dangerous terrorist plot', and ...

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation ...

The drivers were the latest victims of insecurity in the Sahel, an arid swath of land south of the Sahara where militant groups such as the Islamic State Sahel Province have exploited local grievances ...

Junta-led governments in the Sahel region are tightening controls in their mining sectors, seeking to upend what they call traditional exploitation by foreign firms. But that has created uncertainty ...