Tuareg herders Ousmane Ag Sidi and Abdoulwahab Ag Mahamad were working in and around Zahro,…
The Nigerian government’s Terrorist Prevention Act reclassified violent bandit groups, criminal gangs and kidnapping syndicates…
While piracy is down in the Gulf of Guinea, the region remains the world’s hot…
A northern region of Cameroon in the Lake Chad Basin has become a focal point…
After years of losses to the joint military forces of the Democratic Republic of the…
Recent terrorist attacks by Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Islamic State Sahel Province in western…
China has refused to sign an agreement meant to improve efforts to combat illegal, unreported…
As the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo grew to become one…
Chad has reestablished its military relationship with France nearly 18 months after demanding that French…
Transnational terror groups know how to find weak spots on the map. They look for…
Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu of Ethiopia, executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), addressed…
Authorities arrested 1,209 cybercriminals and recovered $97.4 million in a major crackdown involving investigators from…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) plans to activate a 260,000-troop rapid deployment…
As terrorist groups continue to expand beyond the Sahel, countries throughout West Africa are emphasizing…
A Mauritanian National Guardsman demonstrates a thermal image from a camera attached to a drone outside…
Kenya’s inventory of armored vehicles continues to grow with its acquisition of new Springbuck armored…
Spanish shipbuilder Navantia has launched a new offshore patrol vessel for the Royal Moroccan Navy,…
