Graphic videos of a massacre in villages surrounding the western Burkina Faso town of Solenzo spread rapidly on social media…
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Chinese companies are involved in one-third of Africa’s 231 commercial ports, a significantly larger presence and influence than anywhere else…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced plans to activate its standby force as terrorism from Burkina…
The Islamic State group (IS) aims to expand its terrorism beyond the Sahel region and into North Africa and West…
Faced with a rising tide of external threats in the north, Benin has spent much of the past eight years…
Overdose deaths by users of the synthetic drug “kush” are on the rise in West Africa, where new drug consumption…
For decades, The Gambia has been a major source of African rosewood, which is prized by Chinese furniture makers for…
ADF STAFF Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar recently said the Nigerian Air Force is experiencing a “Golden Era,” marked by the…
ADF STAFF Ghana in early January bolstered its maritime security capabilities when it commissioned a forward operating base in Ezinlibo,…
ADF STAFF James was riding his motorcycle through northwest Burkina Faso on his way to Senegal when armed extremists abducted,…