Burkina Faso’s unelected parliament has unanimously approved a new penal code that brings back the death penalty for crimes including high treason, terrorism, espionage, parricide and the importation of expired or prohibited…
Muammar Gaddafi’s death in 2011 did not end the arguments over his rule. Fifteen years on, the former Libyan leader’s political legacy…
Cameroon is creating a new Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) unit for the Lake Chad region as jihadist attacks intensify and continue to…
Nigeria has been placed on the United States’ 2026 list of countries where armed forces, security services or government-backed groups are identified…
Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has taken charge of the newly established Front for the Refoundation of the Nation…
Fear of contaminated drinking water is mounting in Igbokoda, Ondo State, after a Nigerian Air Force plane crashed on October 5, killing…
More than 100 fuel tankers were destroyed in the first months of a blockade of Bamako declared roughly a year ago by…
Mali’s army, supported by Russian paramilitary forces, has regained control of the northern town of Kidal after Tuareg separatists declared a “strategic…
When terrorists struck northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province nine years ago, the country’s Defence Armed Forces (FADM) were caught off guard, despite…
Fighting between Ethiopian government forces and rebels has drawn closer to Mekelle, prompting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front to temporarily pull its…
A new television channel backed by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is taking aim at what the three military-led governments describe as…
