Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

African leaders announcing the closure of Frensh military bases send a clear sign that Africa is rejecting France’s policies ...

As many Africans sour on the West, a new generation of military officers are seizing power, vowing to build strong and ...

Burkina Faso is a west African dryland country known ... on as a source of food and medicinal plants. We used satellite images from NASA and the United States government Earth Explorer and human ...

The BBC was unable to confirm their claims but they showed us pictures of weapons, described the location of recent conflicts and named jihadist commanders in Burkina Faso. The BBC was put in ...

I would rather not explain it now, but it’s sort of self-evident,” President Trump told reporters when asked about the UN ...

A team of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi has uncovered how genetic and lifestyle factors influence immune responses to malaria ...

Moroccan authorities have arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel ...