UN to host meeting in a bid to raise money for distraught Sahel nations
More than 100 countries have moved from largely subsistence-based rural agriculture economies over the past few hundred years to economies ...
Tag: Jihad
Activists in Mail against the pardoning of Jihadists
Experts say some of the jihadists freed in the recent Mali prisoner swap are battle-hardened fighters with years of combat ...
Jihadist gunmen assassinate five people in central Mali
At least five Malian villagers have been killed by suspected jihadists in the center of the country where attacks and ...
Gunmen ambush and kill 25 Burkinabe refugees
Survivors of the attack said that 25 people – all men – were killed, and one seriously injured when their ...
Hundreds of jihadist prisoners released in exchange for French volunteer
More than 100 jihadist prisoners, in Mali, have reportedly been released in an apparent exchange for a politician and a ...
Mali jihadists release French kidnap prisoner held since 2016
A French national who has held hostage by terrorists in Mali since 2016 has been released, her family told French ...
Four Malian security forces killed in Jihadist attack on the border of Mauritania
Four Malian soldiers were killed in an attack in the country’s restive central region on Wednesday, official sources said. The ...
Hell, home and away: Attack on refugee camp leaves 18 people dead
Violent attacks have cost the lives of 30,000 people and displaced more than 3 million in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and ...
Africa’s Gotham: 44 civilians succumb to death in a Chad prison
Forty-four people died in a Chad prison cell. The 44 were civilians who succumbed to brutal detention conditions, not jihadists ...
UN pledges to rebuild heritage sites damaged in Mali conflicts
The UN's cultural organisation, Unesco, is backing a $1m (£767,000) plan to help restore the heritage of central Mali damaged ...