China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held ...
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Moroccan authorities have arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel ...
I would rather not explain it now, but it’s sort of self-evident,” President Trump told reporters when asked about the UN ...
Morocco's counterterrorism agency said on Monday it had foiled attacks against national and international targets in the country by a 12-member cell loyal to Islamic State in the Sahel. The operation ...
Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...
Power has its perks in Niger and the rules are being rewritten by those in charge. On Thursday, a national commission, representing participants to talks on the country’s transition to democratic rule ...
Yakubu Gowon, the only surviving founding member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has expressed optimism about the regional bloc’s future despite the recent withdrawal ...
Armed assailants in western Niger killed at least 10 soldiers in an ambush on a military unit that had been sent to hunt cattle rustlers in a border region near Burkina Faso, Niger’s ruling ...
Niger, along with its neighbors Burkina Faso and Mali, has for over a decade battled an insurgency fought by jihadi groups, including some allied with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.