While you were sleeping, global agencies reported the following events overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. Nineteen ...

A combined force of 5,000 troops from Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali will soon be deployed to address security challenges in ...

Global Terrorism Index shows that Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger record the highest number of terrorism-related deaths in the region. Over the past 15 years, the Sahel has experienced a 1,266% surge in ...

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region against rising ...

Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali have formed a joint 5,000-strong military force to combat extremist violence in the Sahel region. After expelling French forces, the countries now rely on Russia's ...

A joint force of 5,000 troops from military-led neighbours Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali will soon deploy in their troubled ...

Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has appointed a former national security chief to mend ties with Niger, Mali, and ...

Four Moroccan truck drivers who were kidnapped in West Africa over the weekend were released in Niger, officials said. The ...

Togo, West Africa’s third smallest country by landmass, might join the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), which includes ...

Four Moroccan truck drivers went missing on Saturday as they crossed the restive border area between Burkina Faso and Niger, according to a source from the Moroccan embassy in Burkina Faso and a ...

West African leaders considered military intervention to stop Niger from falling under the sway of a junta following a coup.

Twenty-eight soldiers died in an attack in northern Benin, a small West African nation increasingly witnessing violence attributed to jihadists based in neighbouring countries, a security source told ...