Survivors recount a village massacre carried out by Burkina Faso’s security forces Lifeless children intertwined together. A 2-month-old face-up on the ground. The scenes were horrifying, but ...

A tide of violence, fueled by an expanding jihadist network in the Sahel, is steadily creeping from Nigeria’s North-West region into its food basket, the Middle Belt. The recent massacres in Benue Sta ...

Prominent legal practitioner, Ayo Obe, is one of the most recognisable icons of the June 12 struggle and the ...

Communities are shot down in Benue State, killing all aboard. The state popularly referred to as 'food basket of the nation' is bleeding, and Nigeria is held spellbound by the harvest of death, ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to Nigeria’s 36 state governors urging them to “promptly account for the spending of public ...

Three Indian nationals working at a cement factory in western Mali were abducted by terrorists linked to the Al ...

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ExpertBy Segun OnibiyoZamfara, Nigeria - "We heard a thunderous blast and then gunfire soldiers were falling all around,” said Musa Ibrahim, a resident of ...

BOBO-DIOULASSO, Burkina Faso -- Isaka Diallo was playing with friends when a stone struck his left eye. For two weeks, his ...

Forced out of their homes by armed groups, displaced families in Burkina Faso rely on humanitarian aid to meet their children ...

Anti-French sentiment in Burkina Faso has roused support for coup leader Ibrahim Traore on social media, much of it ...