Diplomatic tensions between Benin and its junta-led Sahel neighbours Niger and Burkina Faso have led to a security vacuum ...

Suspected insurgents killed 54 troops in an attack last week on military posts in a Benin national park, the government said ...

Islamic militants attacked military posts in northern Benin, killing at least 54 soldiers. Previously, authorities reported ...

Benin's government says an attack by Islamic militants on military posts in northern Benin last week left at least 54 soldiers dead.

Benin deployed nearly 3,000 soldiers in January 2022 for the Mirador operation, before then recruiting another 5,000 soldiers ...

Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalise on record-high gold prices to ...

COTONOU - Benin's government said that 54 soldiers were killed in an attack in the country's north last week, providing a lower toll than reported by Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM. Read more at straitstimes ...

Government spokesman Wilfried Leandre Houngbedji gave the new toll to a press briefing on the April 17 attack in the W national park in northern Benin, close to the frontiers with Burkina Faso and ...

SITE quoted a statement by Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) on Thursday saying 70 soldiers were killed in attacks ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has initiated plans to relocate its institutions and agencies from ...

The Economic Community of West African States member states will meet in Ghana on Tuesday to discuss the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso. The meeting will take place over two days, ...