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

France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony ...

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

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

on the edge of the Sahara Desert, reported Reuters news agency. The victim, named Eva Gretzmacher, is a development worker in her mid-70's and had lived in Niger for over two decades, according to ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle ...

Niger has for many years battled a jihadi insurgency ... beat back the jihadi insurgency in the vast expanse below the Sahara Desert. The country has severed decades-long military ties with ...

on the edge of the Sahara Desert, reported Reuters news agency. The victim, named Eva Gretzmacher, is a development worker in her mid-70s and had lived in Niger for more than two decades ...

France has handed over its final military post in Chad to local authorities, two months after the former French colony in central Africa terminated its defense cooperation deal with Paris. Chad has ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger's Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known ...