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Unidentified assailants attacked the village of Zaongo in Burkina Faso’s northern Centre-North region on Nov. 5, killing residents and setting property on fire

Mali's army says it is closing in on the northern town of Kidal amid reports of clashes with Tuareg separatist and rebel groups. For several days, tension has been rising around the strategic city, causing…

Armed groups are committing war crimes and human rights abuses as they besiege towns across Burkina Faso, the rights group Amnesty International has warned in a report.

Hippolyte Fofack reflects on how Africa’s development paradox has led to entrenched poverty and environmental degradation.

RFI reporters Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were shot dead in northern Mali on 2 November 2013 after concluding an interview with a Tuareg leader. Ten years later, questions remain about what happened…

Separatist Tuareg rebels in northern Mali claim to have taken over a camp evacuated by the UN in the strategic town of Kidal, a significant development in an ongoing battle for territory.

Lianne Sharabi and her two daughters were found "all cuddled together" after an attack by Hamas.

On Sunday, 30 Israeli human-rights organizations called on the international community to ‘act urgently to stop the state-backed wave of settler violence that has led to ... the forcible transfer of Palestinian communities in the West Bank’

Three months after a military junta seized power in Niger, overthrowing democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum, the country remains increasingly isolated. Rights groups warn Niger's population…

The Sahel region is grappling with an outbreak of the deadly mosquito-borne disease.