Burkina Faso’s ruling junta says it has thwarted an attempt to destabilize the African country “with the help of foreign ...

Will Linder, a retired CIA officer who runs a risk consultancy, said the attacks in Bamako and Barsalogho showed that efforts ...

A media freedom group says local journalists in the African Sahel are facing increased security risks as extremist attacks ...

Extremist attacks in the Sahel have been increasing. Last week, Islamic militants attacked Bamako, the capital of Mali.

Islamist extremists in Burkina Faso carried out a two-day killing spree, slaughtering hundreds of civilians, including 26 ...

Burkina Faso's junta said it had uncovered an international plot to overthrow it and which included the massacre in August of ...

In mid-July, Burkina Faso's leader, Ibrahim Traore, stated that he has evidence of a coordinated attempt by France, supported by Benin and Cote d'Ivoire, to destabilize his country. Burkina Faso ...

Burkina Faso's junta alleges an international conspiracy to overthrow its government, attributing the recent massacre of ...

Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers. They killed dozens of ...

European governments are divided on how to respond to West Africa becoming the world’s terrorism hotspot, with European ...

On September 17, the al-Qaida affiliate Jama‘at Nusrat al-Islam wa-l-Muslimin (the Group for Supporting Islam and Muslims, or ...

DAKAR: Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the militants struck just before dawn prayers. They killed ...