Somalia is facing a dilemma over plans to continue a drawdown of peacekeepers from the country by a deadline of the end of 2024 because it's not known whether the country's poorly ... Read more »
The region, which was the birthplace of the armed uprising that has spread throughout the Sahel, is experiencing a rise in tension, partly due to the withdrawal of UN peaceke Read more »
The amnesty offer is part of a widening approach by the Somali government in its fight against the Al-Shabaab militant group. The government has deployed the military, targeted ... Read more »
Militant group Al-Shabaab attacked a beachfront hotel in Mogadishu on Friday, June 9, 2023. Witnesses told VOA's Somali Service that the assault began with at least two explosions ... Read more »
The U.S. State Department has named five mid-level commanders and multiple junior finance officers of the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, global terrorists. The U.S. reported ... Read more »
The President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has held a meeting with his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni in Kampala. The Kampala talks come after the two leaders witnessed ... Read more »
Residents in the capital city of Niamey had mostly positive things to say about the first visit by a U.S. Secretary of State. Secretary Antony Blinken used the trip to announce ... Read more »
At least 3,000 people have been displaced in renewed fighting along the Nigerian-Cameroonian border, according to forces battling Boko Haram militants, Moki Edwin Kindzek Read more »
Appearing on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list could spell disaster for a country's economy, as it discourages investment, indicate Read more »
Since the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria and the emergence of Islamist-Salafist groups in northern Mali in 2013, the Sahel has increasingly been caught in the ... Read more »
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