NAIROBI: Billions of dollars’ worth of gold is being smuggled out of Africa every year through the United Arab Emirates - a gateway to markets in Europe, the...
LONDON/NAIROBI: In January, the Comoros Islands quietly cancelled a batch of its passports that foreigners had bought in recent years. The tiny nation off the...
MORONI, Comoros/BRUSSELS: In the tiny nation of the Comoros Islands, lying off the east coast of Africa, Albert Karaziwan is a big man – even though he...
NIAMEY/NAIROBI: When Doundou Chefou first took up arms as a youth a decade ago, it was for the same reason as many other ethnic Fulani herders along the...
PRAIA: When Cape Verde police dismantled a drugs network preparing to smuggle tens of millions of dollars of cocaine to Europe in 2011, the operation was...
DAKAR/MONROVIA: With the number of Ebola cases spiraling in West Africa and weeks remaining until treatment units promised by Western governments are built,...
DIFFA, Niger: On a dusty training ground in Niger, U.S. Special Forces are teaching local troops how to deal with suspects who resist arrest. “Speed,...
DAKAR: The U.S. and its allies are clamping down on suspected Hezbollah activity in West Africa, which Washington says is a major source of cash for the...
BAMAKO: Malians turned out in large numbers to vote on Sunday in a presidential election they hope will provide a fresh start for the West African nation...
BAMAKO: Suicide attacks on a French-run mine and a military base in northern Niger have shown how an Islamist threat is spreading across the weak nations of...
TIMBUKTU, Mali: Residents who slipped into a non-descript mud-brick house after Islamist fighters fled Mali's desert town of Timbuktu uncovered a trove of...
GAO, Mali: French and Malian troops fought running gun battles with Islamist rebel guerrillas in the north Mali town of Gao on Sunday, in clashes that showed...
BAMAKO/DAKAR: The French or African troops who hunt down the Islamist fighters holed up in the mountains and deserts of northeast Mali may find a resilient...
DAKAR: By seizing hundreds of hostages at a gas plant in the Algerian desert, Al Qaeda-linked militants angry at French intervention in Mali sent a clear...
DAKAR: A powerful southern offensive by Islamists in Mali last week, halted only by French air strikes, showed that a loose alliance of rebels from al...
DAKAR: Al Qaeda's affiliate in North Africa is the militant organisation's richest faction and the dominant Islamist force among those controlling...
DAKAR: When Mali's Tuareg nomads launched a rebellion in January, many in Africa thought it would be just the latest in a long line of desert uprisings to...
DAKAR: Tuareg fighters are celebrating the seizure of key towns in Mali's north as a historic victory in their half-century battle for a desert homeland....
DAKAR/KIDAL, Mali: Equipped with heavy weapons from Moammar Gadhafi’s looted arsenals, the Tuareg-led rebels who assaulted the town of Aguelhoc in...