Security

Burkina Faso’s Transitional Legislative Assembly (ALT) has unanimously voted to send troops to neighbouring Niger, where the military seized power...

A large crowd hails soldiers as a convoy passes through Gaya on September 13, Niger's closest city to Benin, on...

Fresh fighting broke out between Mali's army and northern Tuareg rebels on Sunday, with the rebels claiming to have taken...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, three West African Sahel nations ruled by military juntas, signed a security pact on Saturday...

After recent deadly attacks in northern Mali, some people in Bamako say the government should consider restarting or increasing dialogue...

Angry protesters in Chad tried to storm a French military base over the fatal shooting of a local soldier. He...

Mozambique's army has killed two senior rebel leaders in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, which is in the grip...

A former militia leader from the Central African Republic on Tuesday told judges at the International Criminal Court that he...

A delegation of Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti on Sunday. Nearly a dozen senior police officers left the Toussaint...

The United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) announced on Sunday that it had "anticipated" , for security reasons, its withdrawal...