Five soldiers are killed and several others are injured after a landmine planted by Islamic extremists explodes in Northern Pendjari National Park, Benin. 2022-04-12
Two employees of the Canadian mining company Iamgold are reported missing following an attack on their convoy in Burkina Faso while travelling to Essakane, Mali. 2021-10-29
Defence minister Sadio Camara asks Mali's main Islamic body, the High Islamic Council, to mediate peace talks between the government and the local branch of al-Qaeda, Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin. The move is strongly opposed by France. 2021-10-19
At least 30 civilians are killed and 20 more wounded as several armed men assault a village in Foutouri, Burkina Faso. It is one of the deadliest attacks in the country's history. 2021-05-3
At least 33 soldiers are killed and 14 others are wounded in an attack on a military post in Gao. 2021-03-17
At least 15 people are killed in northern Burkina Faso after a convoy transporting traders is targeted by an unidentified armed group. Burkina Faso has been fighting Islamist terrorists amid a resurgence of attacks in the Sahel. 2020-05-29
Mali's Prime Minister Boubou Cissé announces that his country will increase the size of its armed forces by 50% in recruitment to uproot jihadist groups. 2020-01-29
During his visit to West Africa, French President Emmanuel Macron says that French forces killed 33 Islamist militants in central Mali earlier that day. 2019-12-21