An attack by armed men in western Niger killed 12 soldiers, the army said Saturday, in a border area that has long been a hotbed of extremist violence. The “surprise offensive” was launched Friday ...

The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old man, Johnson John of Gwallameji, for allegedly trafficking a ...

Twelve Nigerien soldiers have been killed in an attack in the west of the Sahel country and two suspects have been arrested, the army said in a statement seen by Reuters on Saturday. The attack took ...

Twelve Nigerien soldiers were killed in a surprise attack in the Sahel region, near Niger's tri-border area with Mali and ...

Burkina Faso’s military-led government has granted an industrial mining license to Russian company Nordgold for a new gold ...

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Burkina Faso has awarded an industrial mining licence to Russian company Nordgold for the Niou gold deposit, aiming to boost ...

Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalise on record-high gold prices to ...

Social critic VeryDarkMan has revealed those behind the plot to terminate Burkina Faso's president, Ibrahim Traore. He calls ...

Despite its ‘overarching’ achievements over the past 50 years (half a century) since its establishment, the Economic ...

More than 60% of humanitarian organizations reported "significant losses in operational capacity, severely restricting their ability to deliver, and forcing impossible choices about who receives aid a ...