The foreign ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will visit Moscow this week as the Sahel nations and Russia seek to strengthen ties, the three African countries' foreign ministries said in a ...

Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation of 23 million in Sahel, an arid strip of land south of the Sahara, in recent years has become the symbol of the security crisis in the region. It has been shaken ...

Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation of 23 million people in Sahel, an arid strip of land south of the Sahara, in recent years has become the symbol of the security crisis in the region. It has been ...

Video footage circulating on social networks of a recent civilian massacre in Burkina Faso appears to implicate government-allied militia, Human Rights Watch said, calling on ...

Algeria and Mali banned flights to and from each other's airspace, their governments said on Monday, amid an escalating ...

Alliance of Sahel States countries, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, said on Sunday they have recalled their respective ...

Power equations among countries and in regions change pretty fast especially when that country and that region is going ...

Algeria has closed its airspace to flights to and from Mali and recalled its ambassadors from Mali and Niger, in response to ...

Russia has committed to helping military governments in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger acquire arms and training for a planned ...

BAMAKO - The foreign ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will visit ... jihadist insurgency that has spread across the region south of the Sahara since it first took root in Mali 13 years ...