Beneath the ideological bluster, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is just the latest in a long line of African martial impostors ...

China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held ...

For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's ...

Two militant organisations dominate the central Sahelian region that includes Mali, Niger and Burkina: the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) and the Islamic State -- Sahel Province ...

Beijing’s backing of Niger’s military junta is not an isolated policy. In the Sahel – a semi-arid region south of the Sahara desert – China is also supporting the military juntas of ...

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These moves marked the end of France's military presence in the Sahel region, after the expulsions from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, all ruled by military juntas. Chadian President Mahamat Idriss ...

In military junta-led Niger, a commission recommended a five-year transition to democratic rule. The junta's initial ...

The European Union has donated €50m worth of non-lethal military equipment to Ghana to bolster its security forces as ...

NIAMEY, Niger — As Islamist extremist groups have wrested large swaths of territory from government control in the Sahel, young men have streamed into their ranks, often compelled more by ...

Niger’s National Conference has submitted a proposal to return the country to non-military rule after a five-year transition period during which the current military government will stay in power ...

A national committee to chart Niger's future proposed Thursday that the junta-ruled country return to civilian administration ...