The remaining United Nations mission in Mali will start leaving on Friday to bring an end to the 11-year-old peacekeeping mission that helped the country fight militants seeking to control parts of ...

Initially established to protect Fulani herders from Tuareg attacks, the LAKURAWA shifted its stance in 2012, when a faction ...

Russia has deployed up to 200 military instructors to Equatorial Guinea in recent weeks to protect the presidency, sources ...

As Egypt expands its influence in North Africa, it continues to bump into rebellious Tuaregs, who are not alone in opposing Egyptian influence, While Egypt has the largest economy in North Africa, the ...

There is tension and panic in five local government areas of Sokoto state as a new terrorist group, “Lakurawas,” also known ...

The military junta in Mali ordered the United Nations peacekeeping mission MINUSMA to leave the country earlier this year.

But a major defeat for Wagner this summer in northern Mali showed that its actual capabilities might be overstated and unable ...

Western and Malian officials and analysts say the Bamako attack underscored both Wagner’s inefficacy in countering Islamist ...

Support from Wagner, in terms of both personnel and drones, allowed Mali’s army last year to accomplish its long-held goal of retaking Kidal — a town in the country’s north that Tuareg ...