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

The visit was about the economic relations between the two countries and the security situation in the region. On February 28 ...

A landslide has engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them. In a statement broadcast on ...

Junta-led Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso officially quit West African bloc after more than a year of diplomatic tensions ...

A vessel drifting in the Caribbean Sea contained 19 badly decomposed bodies, at least some from Mali, authorities in the ...

THE renewed attacks by armed bandit groups and the intensified violence by Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa leave civilians in North-East ...

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

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported ...

The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, are officially leaving the regional economic bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday, after 50 years.The withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African ...

The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have posed a major challenge to the bloc’s unity, refusing to heed its call for a transition to civilian rule.

The global police body, Interpol, on Thursday said no fewer than forty-five people have been arrested in West Africa over the ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, has raised concerns over the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso ...