Worshippers have been gunned down in mosques and homes have been torched in escalating violence, Human Rights Watch says.

For years, France choreographed the politics of the Sahel with soldiers and secret deals. Today, the tables have turned ...

Thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria have crossed into Cameroon following a raid by Boko Haram jihadists that left ...

Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman, PM of the African country's interim government, in his address accuses France of "destabilising" ...

(Reuters) -At least 30 people were killed in an airstrike in western Niger, two sources told Reuters, the latest casualties in a part of the country hit hard by Islamist militant attacks and ...

A Nigerian organisation representing the Ijaw people, the predominant ethnic group in the oil-rich Niger Delta, has petitioned South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, calling for the immediate ...