Attackers launched a deadly assault in Mali’s northern Timbuktu region, resulting in the death of one UN peacekeeper and leaving eight others seriously injured. The targeted...
Nine individuals were killed and one was injured, with six more missing, in a violent extremist attack on a camp housing refugees from Mali in western...
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO – A suspected jihadi roadside bomb has hit a convoy in northern Burkina Faso, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens more. The...
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO — A strong explosion near a gold mining site in southwestern Burkina Faso killed 59 people and injured more than 100 others Monday,...
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO — Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore is being held by mutinous soldiers, two of the rebellious soldiers told The Associated Press...
Protesters in Niger blocked a French military convoy Saturday shortly after it crossed the border from Burkina Faso, where it had been stuck for a week...
A Canadian woman and Italian man kidnapped in Burkina Faso in December 2018 have been released to the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in neighboring Mali and...
Rwanda has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, an Indian citizen who arrived in the East African nation from Mumbai on March 8, the Health Ministry...
Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Guinea all confirmed their first cases of the new coronavirus on Friday, giving the disease a foothold in 18 countries on the...
Thirteen civilians have been killed in ethnic violence in central Burkina Faso, the government said on Wednesday, echoing a rise in inter-communal conflicts in neighbouring Mali....
Francois Compaore, the younger brother of former Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore, was taken into custody by French authorities on Sunday in connection with the murder...