1 week agoTwo attacks claimed yesterday by ISWAP - both in Baga, both targeting military 4x4 vehicles with IEDs, both claiming their damage and killing and wounding of the Nigerian soldiers
2 week agoMali: 30 soldiers killed in Tarkint base attack. Attack in the town of Tarkint, north of the city of Gao, also left five troops wounded.
Burkina Faso has announced its first death from coronavirus, which is also the first known fatality in sub-Saharan Africa
[email protected] Commander Gen. Townsend: "In West Africa & the Sahel Region, I think that the Western, international & African efforts there are not getting the job done, ISIS & al Qaeda are on the march in West Africa, they're having success & international efforts are not."
Six Malian soldiers killed following a terrorist attack in central Mali
On Feb. 29, U.S. Africa Command lost one remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) in vicinity of Agadez, Niger. Initial and current assessment is that the RPA was lost due to mechanical failure
1 month agoNiger photos of a US armed drone that fell "Saturday 50km north of Timia 250km from Agadez, recovered after hours of research by the Americans according to @oAlkabouss photos of Hamadede al-Housseini
At least 50 people were killed in an armed attack in northern Nigeria
1 month agoIS-West Africa claimed today it repelled a Nigerian army attack in Baga, Borno state
1 month agoBurkina: during the attack on the gendarmerie and the police of Yagha, sources announce the capture of an armored vehicle of the Bastion type by the attackers. Recall that the country has acquired four stronghold vehicles as part of the G5 task force
African Union preparing 3,000-troop deployment to Sahel region: official
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemns the attacks that targeted several villages in central Mali, and killed at least 40 people
1 month ago24 people have been killed and 18 wounded in an assault on a village church in northern Burkina Faso, the regional governor says, with a provisional toll indicating the local pastor was targeted
1 month agoDeath of a French soldier in Burkina Faso, Chief Sergeant Morgan HENRY. The causes of death are not known at this time.
As the US weighs cutting support to the French-led counterterrorism effort in northwest Africa, Maj. Gen. Gayler, director of operations for @USAfricaCommand traveled with French military leadership to outposts in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger & Chad to engage with French forces
1 month agoMali: Burkinabe Koglweogos arrive in Yoro, Mopti, and show off the head (cropped out) of a beheaded Fulani herdsman
Death toll rises to 20 in central Mali village attack
1 month agoA third claim for today - this time ISWAP says its fighters burned 20 buildings in Kukawa yesterday
ISIS claims responsibility for the attack on an Algerian military base near the Mali border
1 month agoISWAP claims to have killed and wounded several Nigerian soldiers in Rann yesterday. The attack was reported yesterday evening by @SembeTv. Still nothing about the Auno attack from ISWAP
Mali: the Malian army began its deployment to Kidal on Monday. "We have just left Gao for Kidal. There is no problem at the moment," a Malian officer told @afpfr
According to Algeria-n Ministry of Defense: A terrorist attack took place in Timiaouine, Adrar province, Algeria near borders with Mali. A terrorist attempted to enter a military base with a car bomb. The terrorist detonated the car before reaching and killed one soldier
Armed men attack a police station in Benin, near the border with Burkina Faso
An Algerian soldier was killed in a suicide bombing attack on an army unit on the Mali border
The U.S. Embassy in Bamako has received information regarding a possible terrorist attack on the Festival sur Le Niger in Segou along the river. The Festival is ongoing through February 9, 2020. The Embassy advises U.S. citizens to avoid the area, practice vigilance.
1 month agoMali: unconfirmed information circulating in social media about ISGS are imposing their rules on local population in Konza and Sendegue, Konna area, Mopti region since January 30th. Military attachement based there abandoned its post
Bandits shoot down police helicopter in Kaduna State
Special Operatives of Operation Puff Adder of the Nigeria Police backed by the Special Forces of the Police Airwing, in a offensive operation, stormed one of the largest operational camps of the Ansaru Group located in Kuduru Forest, Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State and successfully neutralized several high-profile members
Nearly 20 civilians were killed in an attack in the north of Burkina Faso
Niger: A civilian killed in Ayerou (Tillaberi) on February 1, 2020 by armed men around 10 p.m. following the attack on the Hippopotamus hotel. Despite the insecurity, the populations of Ayerou have been living in complete darkness for 1 week due to the breakdown of the generator set
Latest news from Sahel region: The Sahel part of Africa includes (from west to east) parts of northern Senegal, southern Mauritania, central Mali, northern Burkina Faso, the extreme south of Algeria, Niger, the extreme north of Nigeria, central Chad, central and southern Sudan, the extreme north of South Sudan, Eritrea, Cameroon, Central African Republic and extreme north of Ethiopia.
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