IS Group-Affiliated Militants Take Key Mali Village
All the region's main administrative subdivisions are now under the group's control
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All the region's main administrative subdivisions are now under the group's control
Jihadists affiliated to Islamic State group have taken Tidermene in Mali, further isolating the regional capital Menaka, officials and witnesses told AFP Wednesday, in a region that has fallen almost entirely under their control.
On Monday, French and US hostages Olivier Dubois and Jeffery Woodke were freed in Niger after many months in the hands of Sahel jihadists.
Olivier Dubois, a French journalist who was abducted in Mali's Gao region (north) on April 8, 2021 by the al Qaeda-linked Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM), was released on Monday and taken to…
Burkina Faso said on Saturday that a process to select a transitional president ahead of elections would begin next week following a coup by disaffected military officers against a ruling junta.