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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's armed forces killed about 100 militants in a joint operation with Niger between Nov. 25...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore fired his prime minister on Wednesday amid an escalating security crisis that...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Gunmen have killed 12 soldiers and wounded eight in a clash in southwest Niger near the border...

COTONOU (Reuters) -Two soldiers were killed and several more wounded when Islamist militants attacked a border security post in northern...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Suspected militants killed four soldiers in Burkina Faso's northern Loroum province on Sunday, the army said, in...

By Boureima Balima and John Irish NIAMEY (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and 18 injured in western...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore promised to end "dysfunction" within the military in a speech...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's government, facing mounting public anger over repeated killings by Islamist militants, extended its suspension of...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's government said on Monday it had cut mobile internet access in the country under a...

PARIS (Reuters) -France has asked the president of Burkina Faso to intervene after a convoy of French troops was stopped...

KAYA, Burkina Faso (Reuters) -A convoy of French troops in Burkina Faso was stopped en route to Niger on Friday...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen have killed at least 25 people in southwest Niger, officials said on Wednesday, the latest...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Armed men killed 15 people in raids in Nigeria's Sokoto state, government officials said, despite a military...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - At least 25 primary school children were killed when their thatched-roof classrooms caught fire in southern Niger...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - At least 18 people were killed on Sunday in an artisanal gold mine collapse in southern Niger,...

NIAMEY (Reuters) -Unidentified gunmen killed 11 soldiers defending a village in a remote part of southwest Niger where Islamist militants...

NIAMEY (Reuters) -Gunmen killed 69 people including a mayor in an attack in a remote area of southwest Niger, the...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Armed men on motorbikes killed at least 18 people at a mosque in Niger state in...

By Paul Lorgerie BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's interim authorities will confirm a date for post-coup elections after national reform consultations...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's Borno state, the epicentre of an ongoing Islamist insurgency, will shut all camps that are...