When Mali recently called for a UN peacekeeping force to depart the country "without delay," it was the latest sign of unease in parts of Africa over the role of the so-called Blue Helmet operations.Mali Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop last month cal...

A Paris appeals court on Friday handed a 14-year jail term to a high-profile French jihadist convicted of terrorist offences linked to Syria.The court upheld the sentence against Kevin Guiavarch handed down by a lower court but was more lenient in ru...

Burkina Faso announced Thursday a recruitment drive for 5,000 soldiers to serve in the army for at least five years to aid the country in its fight against jihadists.The country, one of the world's poorest, has been battling a deadly insurgency since...

Jihadists aligned with the Islamic State group are advancing in northeastern Mali, prompting terrified citizens to flee their homes, sources there say.The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) launched an offensive in the Gao and Menaka regions...

By AFPNearly 150,000 children displaced by violence in jihadist-torn Mali have no birth certificates and could be denied education as a result, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Monday.The children either lost their birth certificates as th...

By AFPJihadists have dynamited bridges and mounted deadly attacks against supply convoys, blockading Burkina Faso's northern town of Djibo and leaving its people destitute."The situation is catastrophic in Djibo," said Idrissa Badini, a spokesman for...

By AFPHaulier Aziz falters as he describes how jihadists attacked a convoy of lorries laden with food for a starving town in northern Burkina Faso on September 26, events which contributed to the country's latest coup.Aziz was driving his lorry carry...

Ahmed Raissouni has announced his resignation from the presidency of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.Raissouni made this decision to defend his right to freedom of expression without oppression, emphasizing his firm positions and opinions...

Jihadists have killed three policemen and a vigilante in an ambush on the convoy of a local official in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, two militia sources said Thursday.Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters fired a rocket-propelled gr...

Six people were killed in Mali, including two gendarmes and a police officer, in a rare attack near its capital Bamako, the Ministry of Security said Friday evening.The landlocked country in the heart of the Sahel is facing an ongoing political and s...

By AFPThe raid bore all the hallmarks of the Islamic State group.After dividing themselves into three squads, more than a hundred gunmen stormed a Nigerian prison, using explosives to blast though a wall and free dozens of jailed jihadists.But the as...