Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

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

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

The Malian government’s overhaul of its extraction industry risks deterring companies from investing in the nation that’s home to the world’s second-largest gold mine, according to Anglo American CEO ...

Wassim Nasr, FRANCE 24’s terrorist expert ... to locate Navarro and his kidnappers near the town of Indelimane in Mali’s eastern region of Ménaka, more than 322 kilometres south of the ...

Chad, Senegal and now Ivory Coast have followed Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in asking France to withdraw its troops from their soil. The reasons vary — from growing anti-French sentiment to ...

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 ...

France is preparing to hand Côte d'Ivoire back its only military base in the country in a ceremony on 20 February, further diminishing French influence in West Africa. Ivorian President Alassane ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that the official withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) raises concerns over access to ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like ... he recounts his ordeal in a book released Thursday in France that draws heavily on notes Dubois secretly ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are increasingly turning to ... of being too much under the influence of former colonial power France. ECOWAS has also been forthright in its criticism of the coups ...