Niger targets terrorist financing, kills 13 in illegal gold mine raids
Niger's army has raided terrorist-controlled informal mining sites in the country's west, killing more than a dozen insurgents and seizing ...
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Burkina Faso completes nationalisation of five gold mining assets
Burkina Faso has completed the transfer of five gold mining assets to the country's state-owned miner, according to a decree ...
How the dangerous terrorists in West Africa get the money they need to survive
The 2024 global terrorism index listed Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin as one of the world’s most dangerous terrorist organisations. Its influence ...
Niger plans to cut number of Chinese oil workers, documents show
Niger has asked that some Chinese employees working on oil projects leave the country, documents seen by Reuters on Friday ...
The Gurunsi People of West Africa
The name Gurunsi comes from the Djerma language of Niger words “Guru-si”, which means “iron does not penetrate”. The term ...
Al Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility for Burkina Faso attack, says it killed 60 soldiers
Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM has claimed responsibility for an attack targeting a military post in Burkina Faso's northern Loroum province ...
Landlocked Burkina, Mali, Niger back sea access through Morocco
Foreign ministers of the military-ruled Sahel states of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger said on Monday they endorse an initiative ...
Burkina Faso to nationalise more industrial mines, PM says
Burkina Faso plans to take control of more foreign-owned industrial mines, its prime minister said, as the West African nation ...
Twelve Niger soldiers killed in attack, two suspects detained, says army
Twelve Nigerien soldiers have been killed in an attack in the west of the Sahel country and two suspects have ...
Algeria and Mali ban flights amid diplomatic crisis
Algeria and Mali banned flights to and from each other's airspace, their governments said on Monday, amid an escalating diplomatic ...