The jihadist organisation, which lost its final stronghold in Syria in 2019, is posing a new challenge to security services, ...

A security expert told the Mirror the extremist group’s resurgence in the Sahel - spanning Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger - and ...

Niger's army has claimed to have killed Boko Haram leader Ibrahim Mahamadu, alias "Bakura", without providing evidence, prompting caution from experts and a denial from the jihadist group.

Niger's army said its soldiers killed a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, but experts cast ...

Niger's army said its soldiers killed a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, but experts cast ...

The head of the US Africa Command, General Michael Langley, said that Islamist groups are looking to extend their reach to ...

Russia is moving to cement its influence in Africa’s Sahel region, hosting defence ministers from Burkina Faso, Mali, and ...

Burkina Faso's junta has expelled the UN's top official to the West African nation over a report about children caught up in ...

Jihadists from Burkina Faso have stepped up their assaults on northern Togo since the beginning of the year, with the ...

Burkina Faso has declared United Nations regional coordinator Carol Flore-Smereczniak persona non grata over a U.N. report ...

The United States Mission in Nigeria has hailed the Nigerian Government and security forces for the successful arrest of two notorious Ansaru terrorist leaders, Mahmud Muhammad Usman (aka Abu Bara’a) ...