The military junta in the country has continued its crackdown on foreign media institutions following an initial suspension of the BBC and the Voice of America over their coverage ... Read more »
Human Rights Watch said the mass killings, which included about 56 children, took place in February in the country's northern villages of Nondin and Soro. The rights group has ... Read more »
Burkina Faso's military government has vehemently denied Human Rights Watch's report accusing soldiers of killing 223 villagers in two attacks on February 25, lab Read more »
The latest Human Rights Watch report accuses Malian armed forces and Wagner Group mercenaries of committing war crimes against civilians in central and northern Mali. Read more »
A series of coup attempts have raised fears that military takeovers in Africa are on the rise. But is that true? Since August 2020, five coups have occurred in three Read more »
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (1949-1987) was assassinated 31 years ago, on October 15, 1987. He was one of the most confident and outspoken anti-imperialist leaders of the late ... Read more »
Following recent military coups in the region, the regional body Ecowas - once considered Africa's most institutionally developed organization - began to show signs of lack of ... Read more »
Although the security situation in the region has worsened since the militaries in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso overthrew their civilian-led governments, some experts think the ... Read more »
The head of Niger's armed forces, Moussa Salaou Barmou, has announced the formation of a new anti-Jihadist force following a meeting with his counterparts from Mali and Burkina ... Read more »
A new report on global terrorism shows a dramatic rise in the number of terrorism-related deaths while revealing that the Sahel region of Sub-Saharan Africa witnessed more deaths ... Read more »
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