The country’s former tribal areas bordering Afghanistan are plagued by escalating militancy, leading to widespread ...

Burkina Faso’s interim military president, Captain Ibrahim Traore, on Thursday explained why he inaugurated the country’s ...

Togo is signalling a potential realignment in West African geopolitics as it openly explores joining the Alliance of Sahel ...

On Tuesday, the well-known political activist and journalist Idrissa Barry was arrested by men claiming to be gendarmes in ...

The military Government of Niger has announced its decision to withdraw from the Organization internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), a global group of French-speaking nations, following its ...

Western media reports have revealed that representatives of the Azawad rebels (Malian Tuaregs) and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin held a meeting in March ...

Over the last decade, West Africa has been shaken by extremist uprisings and military coups. Groups linked to al-Qaida and ...

Based on video analysis, media reports, and local sources, most victims of the massacre in Solenzo appear to be ethnic Fulani ...

Human Rights Watch says video footage circulating on social networks of a recent civilian massacre in Burkina Faso appears to ...

A massacre in western Burkina Faso, attributed to militias allied with the military junta, has raised alarms after videos ...

Militias allied with Burkina Faso's military junta have been linked to a "gruesome" massacre western Burkina Faso that left dozens dead this week, Human Rights Watch said late on Friday.