One of the most consequential shifts in the region has been the fragmentation of collective security. The withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from ECOWAS and the formation of the Alliance of ...

Unfortunately, that is of limited use when it comes to the big crisis on west Africa’s doorstep: jihadism in the Sahel.

Leader of Mali's ruling junta Assimi Goita, centre, attends an Independence Day military parade in Bamako, Mali, 22 September ...

Amidst this struggle for security and control, Mali’s 24 million people are sitting atop a vast, untapped gold resource, ...

As jihadists swept through Mali late last month, they also swept aside the assurances that Moscow had dangled to governments ...

Mali is experiencing a major escalation in violence, with jihadist groups advancing and the defense minister assassinated.

It is hard to overstate the sense of shock reverberating across West Africa after attackers, in co-ordinated assaults, ...

Mali's army has been battling Islamist groups for more than a decade Mali's capital city Bamako - a major West African hub ...

Across Mali, jihadis are seizing territory, encircling the capital, and pushing a fragile regime toward collapse. Backed by a ...

Traveling through picture-perfect Adriatic scenes during a period of mourning, a son remembers his mother’s gift for life.