Western media reports have revealed that representatives of the Azawad rebels (Malian Tuareg) and Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an al-Qaeda affiliate, ...

Mistrust between AES and ECOWAS countries must be overcome to enable intelligence sharing and security cooperation.

Niger's ruling junta said there would be a five-year transition to constitutional rule starting from Wednesday, in an ...

West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional economic bloc, they ...

weakly governed Sahel region. Jon Lee Anderson reports from northern Mali during the time of the AQIM takeover for the New Yorker.

Failure by nation-states to implement policies that include and empower vulnerable young people lies at the heart of why ...

CEO Mark Bristow is confident about concluding negotiations with Mali’s junta-led government on a new mining code before the end of the year. Discussions between Barrick and Malian authorities on ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from haramata, a word in the Ghanaian language Fanti.The wind originates from ...

A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with ...

Under the cover of darkness, the jihadists moved into Wulgo, where the shores of Lake Chad meet the arid countryside of ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization issued an alert for Algeria, Libya and Tunisia against groups of desert locusts. The outbreak that began in December in the Sahel spread to North Africa during ...

The attack, which took place in the Fambita quarter of the rural border town of Kokorou, resulted in the tragic loss of at ...