The U.S. military is backing off its usual talk of good governance and countering underlying causes of African insurgencies.

Armed Forest Guards Amid Rising InsecurityBy Mike Odeh James and Luka Binniyat (Abuja) Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu’s plan to tackle the rising tide of ins ...

The advocacy group Human Rights Watch says military personnel in Mali carried out "apparent summary executions" of at least ...

NIIA is Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. It was established in 1961 as a foreign policy think-tank, as an International Institute in Africa, an African Institute in Nigeria, and a Nigerian ...

Amid a troubling escalation of insecurity across the country, the service chiefs have embarked on emergency visits to military bases in the North-East and North-West to assess the situation on the ...

Several dozen people, notably women and children, have demonstrated in the central Malian village of Diafarabé following allegations that the Malian army killed more than 20 ...

A court in Mali will hold a hearing on Thursday to consider a request made by Mali's military government to reopen Canadian ...

A jihadi group aligned with Al-Qaida known as Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, or JNIM, which is active in the Sahel region, claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack.

Civic spaces are shrinking under Goita’s rule, democracy activists say, as the military suspends ‘political activity’.

BAMAKO, Mali — Mali ’s military government has ... days after the first pro-democracy rally since soldiers took power by force almost four years ago. The decree signed by the transitional ...

An apparent Islamist armed group attacked a civilian convoy escorted by Malian armed forces and allied militias in northeastern Mali on February 7, 2025, killing at least 34 civilians and injuring 34 ...

Former diplomats on Thursday warned that the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso from ... its part in the multinational joint task force, this zone could become a vulnerable entry point ...