Their loved ones were slaughtered by Islamic extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, ...

Never before have there been so many armed conflicts across the globe. According to the Global Peace Index 2024, the number ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso who have formed their own Alliance of Sahel States from West African bloc ...

Burkina Faso's military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore joined criticism of Macron's suggestion that some West African leaders ...

A combination of population explosion, failure of governance and endemic poverty creates a perfect breeding ground for a ...

Analysis - Increasing levels of extreme poverty in Africa were turbocharged by COVID-19, fuelling the fire of relative deprivation.

Militants inflicted heavy losses on Benin's armed forces during an attack this week on a fortified military post in the north of the country, the military said in a statement. Col. Faizou Gomina, the ...

Nigeria’s Super Eagles B have been drawn in Group D alongside Senegal, Congo, and Sudan for the 2025 African Nations ...

While a deal to halt hostility in Gaza may open up a window for renewed focus on wars in Africa – particularly in Sudan, the ...

The Malian military government seized around three metric tons of gold from Barrick Gold's Loulo-Gounkoto complex, valued at ...

Human Rights Watch has found that African governments continue to crack down and wrongly arrest political opponents, critics, ...

Twenty-eight soldiers were killed in an attack in northern Benin, a security source told AFP on Thursday, as violence blamed ...