Gunmen killed 21 civilians in an attack on a goods convoy in western Niger near the borders with fellow conflict-wracked Sahel states Mali and Burkina Faso, local sources told AFP on Saturday.

Armed men intercepted the convoy in the early evening just north of Tera, the report said, adding that ‘several civilians ...

An attack on a goods convoy in western Niger near the borders with fellow conflict-wracked Sahel states Mali and Burkina Faso has killed 21 civilians, local sources told AFP on Saturday.

Chadian authorities claim that the attack was carried out by the Nigerian ... (except for the Italian contingent still stationed in Niger). All these countries are facing offensives by various ...

Authorities in Niger, which is also battling attacks by jihadist groups, have stepped up security in recent weeks, with military patrols, checks and searches of vehicles. Reuters is a news agency ...

A jihadist attack in the Malian capital of Bamako targeting ... The attack came a day after junta-led Mali, Niger and Burkina ...

Despite the fracture within Ecowas and animosity with western partners, regional and international collaboration is needed to ...

The group also regularly carries out attacks in neighbouring Niger and Mali -- where it claimed ... faces in trying to contain this escalation in jihadist violence in Burkina Faso.

KANO: Gunmen killed 15 people in an attack on a northwest Nigerian village, officials confirmed Saturday (Nov 9), amid reports of a newly arrived jihadist ... from the Niger border, had been ...

Two Catholic priests from Nigeria have expressed grave concern about the worsening security situation in the West African ...