Attempted coup in Niger: Former Interior Minister jailed
Niger’s former Interior Minister (2010-2011), Ousmane Cissé, was jailed on Friday for his alleged involvement in two coup attempts, including the one in March 2021, […]
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Niger repatriates a thousand of its “beggars” from Senegal
More than a thousand Nigerian migrants who were begging in the streets of Dakar were repatriated last week to their country, the government announced, as […]
Niger: 21 dead in bus & truck attack near Burkina
At least twenty-one people, including two policemen, were killed Wednesday in an attack by suspected jihadists on a bus and a truck in the troubled […]
A dozen civilians killed in an attack on a gold mine in Burkina
At least 11 people were killed Saturday in an attack on an artisanal gold mine in northern Burkina Faso, two days after a similar attack […]
Nigeria: Nineteen members of the security forces shot dead
Gunmen killed 13 soldiers, five policemen and a local militiaman in a pitched battle in northwestern Nigeria, where gangs of “bandits” have been terrorizing the […]
Niger: Five soldiers killed in mine explosion
Five Nigerien soldiers were killed in the explosion of an improvised mine in the southwestern department of Torodi, where jihadist attacks with improvised explosive devices […]
ECOWAS cancels visit to Ouagadougou after adoption of Transition Charter
A high-ranking visit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), scheduled for Thursday in Ouagadougou, has been cancelled after the adoption of a […]
Jihadist attack leaves two dead in Malian army
Two Malian soldiers were killed early Sunday in northern Mali in an attack on their post blamed on jihadists, the army announced on social networks. […]
Six dead, 10 injured in Benin ambush
Five forest rangers and a soldier were killed and ten people wounded in an ambush Tuesday in a transboundary nature park managed by Benin, Burkina […]
Thirty jihadists killed by Malian army and European Takuba force
Some thirty jihadists were killed in early February in the Malian Liptako by European Special Forces of the Takuba group and the Malian armed forces […]