General Assimi Goïta, Mali's junta leader, has signed a controversial law granting himself a five-year presidential mandate -- renewable indefinitely and without election -- sparking widespread ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso are fighting an insurgency linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) that began in northern ...

Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G Recent coordinated terrorist assaults by Al-Qaeda affiliate across Mali’s towns have ...

The head of Mali's junta General Assimi Goita has granted himself a five-year presidential mandate, renewable "as many times ...

Fulani herdsmen on Friday killed five Christians and wounded three others in an area of northwest Nigeria s Kaduna state where at least 110 others have been kidnapped in the past six months, sources ...

James Elder of the United Nations children’s charity Unicef has told BBC News that “there really has to be an overdue review ...

In April, the head of the United States Africa Command announced to the US congress that Traore was one of the top enemies of ...

Analysis - As armed groups shift away from direct confrontations with the military, commercial drones are increasingly used to carry out attacks.

Fulani herdsmen attacked two villages in Kaduna state, Nigeria, killing two Christians and wounding three others, after ...

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The etymological patrimony of the word ‘cornucopia’ is typically characterised by abundance, harvest, nourishment, and plenty ...

A new infographic released by ISIS’s Amaq Agency over the weekend paints a revealing picture of the group’s global operations during the first half of the year. The data, drawn from across ISIS's ...