Islam first came to West Africa as a slow and peaceful process, spread by Muslim traders and scholars. The early journeys across the Sahara were done in stages. Goods passed through chains of ...

The Sahel region of Africa, between the Sahara and the tropical savannahs to the south, has emerged as a significant base of groups that want to establish jihadist states. A jihadist state is a ...

The overarching worry is that the crisis could spread further across West Africa. The security crisis ... Al-Qaeda affiliated Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin - JNIM Islamic State Group ...

Islam, traditional Songhai religion and Paganism ... many of the coins used in southern Europe could be traced back to West Africa. Through the expansion of their trading links, kingdoms came ...

Sharia police in Nigeria's Kano state say they've "mopped up 300 of these boys from the streets" and put them in a camp for ...

Security experts say the Islamic State (IS) jihadist militant group is capitalising on issues such as severe governance ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has insisted his country was "right" to intervene against Islamist militants in the Sahel ...

Elsewhere, the leader of al-Qaeda affiliate Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM ... France's decision to reduce its military presence in West Africa's Sahel region. And it is not just ...

Similarly, The Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), Al Qaeda’s branch for the Sahel and West Africa, is on its own upward trajectory, standing as one of the region’s most dominant violent ...

Outgoing President of the Republic, Nana Akufo-Addo has lauded Ghana as the only state that has not experienced a terrorist ...