What we know after American Airlines plane crashes with Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. People Are Sharing Lessons ...

Habboub Cherkaoui, head of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, said it foiled a 'dangerous terrorist plot', and ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have officially left West Africa’s main political and trade group ECOWAS after more than a year ...

The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have officially withdrawn from regional economic bloc ECOWAS in the wake of decisions made a year ago, the multination body said on Wednesday.

The exit of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso was the culmination of a year-long process during which the regional bloc tried to ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...

"The rise of junta rule in the Sahel represents a complex interplay between decolonization and destabilization." ...

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force ...