The fight against radicalisation in Mauritania advances through faith and community outreach by female Islamic guides.

COTONOU, May 24 (Reuters) - Benin's new president, Romuald Wadagni, vowed at his inauguration on Sunday to confront rising security threats and to ensure economic growth translated into concrete ...

Tuareg rebellion, jihadism and Russian influence collide in Mali, blurring the line between insurgency, proxy war and ...

David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), told an audience at RUSI that supply ...

A new analysis published in World Politics Review argues that Mali’s dominant jihadist group, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), may be drawing lessons from the evolution of Syria’s Hayat ...

The Rusty Lark bird that had been missing for 94 years was photographed alive in Africa, surprising scientists and ...

Following their ad limina visit to the Vatican, the bishops of the Burkina-Niger Episcopal Conference have issued a fervent ...

Since late April, fighters from Al-Qaeda's Sahel branch have imposed a road blockade on the main routes into Bamako, torching dozens of buses and freight trucks.

In Darfur, the violence that once mobilised international outrage in the early years of the civil war, has returned in a form ...

For years, the names Al-Minuki and Wahhab spelt absolute terror for rural communities in Nigeria, leaving a bloody trail of ...

THE few days were days of anguish; headlined by the horrific developments in Oyo State. Now that the whole of Nigeria is in ...

President Donald Trump said U.S. and Nigerian forces killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Nigeria in a mission ...