Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers. They killed dozens of ...

The city of Maiduguri, in Nigeria, had been drought-stricken. Then the rains, amplified by climate change, began and wouldn’t ...

Here’s what we know about the security situation in Sahel: Over the last decade, the region has been shaken by extremist ...

Niger has become the latest West African country to roll out malaria vaccines to try to stifle the potentially deadly disease ...

Unprecendented flooding in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, Ghana and Liberia has triggered humanitarian crises. An ...

As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds ...

People in Nigeria's flood-hit northeastern Borno state are struggling to get medical care as overwhelmed aid agencies warn of ...

Prior to last year's coup, Niger had been a key partner in the US' battle against Islamist insurgents operating in the region ...

The U.S. military said on Monday it had completed its withdrawal from Niger. The West African nation's ruling junta in April ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is raising funds for an mpox vaccination program. Its head said he hoped Western countries learned their lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. is gradually moving aircraft and commandos into coastal West Africa in an urgent effort ... summer from their regional stronghold in Niger, farther inland, and now the Pentagon is ...