Burkina Faso saw fewer attacks in 2024, but they were far deadlier, killing more than 1,500 people. • Nearly half of the attacks were carried out by the jihadist group JNIM; ISIS was nearly absent. • ...

Our principal objective now is to form a united Sahelian confederation force to tackle the terrorist threat,' says Malian ...

I rose through the ranks!” joked Maixent Somé, an exiled Burkinabè activist and critic of the country's military junta on X ...

Abidjan (West Africa): "Several dozen" soldiers and civilian auxilaries have been killed in a suspected jihadist attack in ...

Burkina Faso’s Justice Ministry announced that approximately 1,200 people convicted in connection with the coup attempt would ...

Twenty-one soldiers, convicted for their role in the failed coup d'état in Burkina Faso in September 2015, have received a ...

Mistrust between AES and ECOWAS countries must be overcome to enable intelligence sharing and security cooperation.

Tensions between Algeria and its southern neighbours have flared once again after the downing of a Turkish-made military ...

Burkina Faso extends amnesty to those involved in ... their willingness to actively participate in the fight against terrorism". The 21 soldiers pardoned will rejoin the army, which has been ...

Sahel Junta Ministers Meet Russia’s Lavrov, Mali Accuses Kyiv of Terrorism | Firstpost Africa | N18G Russian Foreign Minister ...

Suspected fighters from the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) have launched a devastating assault on Guiedougou, a village in western Burkina Faso, killing an estimated 300 people.

Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop accused Ukraine of sponsoring terrorism in the Sahel region during high-level talks ...