Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities as African nations have grown closer to Moscow.

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle ...

An unfortunate human-caused incident once took away a special relic of historical importance from the Nigerian Sahara Desert.

On Sunday, Austria's Foreign Ministry said unnamed gunmen had kidnapped an Austrian aid worker in Agadez, Niger, roughly 280 miles (450 kilometers) from the largely porous desert border with Algeria.

Niger has for many years battled a jihadi insurgency ... beat back the jihadi insurgency in the vast expanse below the Sahara Desert. The country has severed decades-long military ties with ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped in the northern Niger city of Agadez, media and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said Austria's embassy in Algeria, which is also ...

It was sparked by Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The war unfolded in two key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which focused on troop deployment and defending Saudi Arabia, and Operation ...

Niger was seen as one of the last democratic countries in Africa’s Sahel region that Western nations could partner with to beat back the jihadi insurgency in the vast expanse below the Sahara Desert.

on the edge of the Sahara Desert, reported Reuters news agency. The victim, named Eva Gretzmacher, is a development worker in her mid-70's and had lived in Niger for over two decades, according to ...