Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Fourteen soldiers were killed and others were injured in an extremist attack in Burkina Faso’s ...

UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres has warned that jihadist groups in the Sahel area of North Africa are exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to step up attacks, according to documents seen by AFP.

The Sahel, an African region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean on the West Coast to the Red Sea on the East Coast, is often reduced to an area of armed conflicts and security crises by the ...

The first signs of tensions were evident in the second half of 2019 with small scale clashes that went largely unreported and unclaimed. A crisis meeting between JNIM members – including the Burkinabé ...

Jihadists in Africa's Sahel region now operate in an area twice the size of Spain - Copyright AFP/File MICHELE CATTANI Jihadists in Africa's Sahel region now operate ...

Gen. Michael Langley, Commander of United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), warned last month in Kenya that terrorists might be eying Nigeria and the West Africa coastline. According to him, “Attacks ...

Sudan’s ongoing humanitarian crisis after more than a year of civil war shows few signs of abating. And amid the fighting, a significant and troubling development looks set to complicate the conflict ...

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