Guest Column - In recent years, a wave of military takeovers has swept across the Sahel region—Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali—toppling long-standing regimes and sending shockwaves through Africa’s ...

A French man arrested in Mali is a member of the French embassy in the capital Bamako and accusations against him are "unfounded", the French foreign office said in a statement to Reuters on Saturday.

Yann Vezilier, a member of the French embassy in Bamako, was arrested by Malian authorities amidst accusations of a plot to ...

Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio, who took over the rotating chairmanship of the Economic Community of West African ...

Nigeria's national security adviser has announced the arrest of two militant leaders on the country's most wanted list.

NIAMEY - Armed men killed 20 civilians travelling on a truck in a western region of Niger where jihadist groups are active, ...

The capture of Abu Bara and Mallam Mamuda, the Ansaru group’s leader and deputy commander respectively, marks one of the most ...

Nuhu Ribadu, national security adviser (NSA), says security forces have arrested two top leaders of the Ansaru terrorist ...

Nuhu Ribadu has announced that security forces have arrested two top Ansaru leaders in high-risk intelligence operations.

Two top leaders of Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina fi-Biladis Sudan (Ansaru), an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Nigeria, have been arrested by the security agents.

The Federal Government on Saturday announced the arrest of two top leaders of Jama'atu Ansarul Muslimina fi-Biladis Sudan, an ...