Community radio stations in northern Mali are threatened by both jihadis and government censorship. But local journalists ...

Kevin Rideout, a Christian missionary in Niger, was taken from outside his house in Niamey last month. U.S. officials are ...

Local Nigerien missionaries are shocked and saddened; foreign workers there provide training, aid, and encouragement.

Security analysts say the group known as Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), which has been operating for months ...

Travelers are being warned to steer clear of two West African countries, as the US State Department issues its highest-level ...

Security analysts say the group known as Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), which has been operating for months ...

A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military ...

Western governments warn citizens to flee Bamako as al Qaeda-affiliated fighters block fuel routes and encircle Mali’s ...

A coalition of jihadist groups affiliated with al-Qaida have laid siege to landlocked Mali’s capital. For over a month, they ...

The landlocked West African nation of Mali is being squeezed by a weekslong blockade on fuel imports imposed by jihadi ...

Qaida have laid siege to landlocked Mali's capital. For over a month, they have attacked convoys supplying Bamako with fuel, putting considerable pressure on the military junta that has been ruling ...

If Bamako really does fall into the hands of Islamists it would mark a stunning reversal — and not only for Mali’s military junta, whose seizure of power in 2020 on a wave of anti-French sentiment ...