Security

Mali is withdrawing from a multinational military group fighting an armed insurgency in West Africa's Sahel area, according to the...

According to captured militants and locals, authorities in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region are compelling young people to join their army's...

The Ugandan Defense Minister downplayed the allegations that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) which is fighting against the Ethiopian...

Dozens of people were killed and many more are missing after armed men raided a mining encampment near the town...

A member of the Russian private-security firm Wagner was captured earlier this month in central Mali, al-Qaeda's Sahel branch Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam...

Rebellious Tigrayan forces are completely withdrawing from the neighbouring region of Afar in Ethiopia, a spokesperson for the Tigrayan forces...

Cameroon is the latest African nation to agree a military deal with Russia, signed last week in Moscow by the...

Mali has received another batch of military equipment from Russia after the European Union suspended its military training programme with...

A joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon said on Sunday it had killed more than 100 Islamist insurgents,...

The US has agreed to sell military equipment worth $997m (£763m) to Nigeria, including 12 attack helicopters and numerous Advanced...