French forces have killed a top al-Qaeda commander, Yahya Abou El Hamame, described as the mastermind and financer of several jihadist attacks, in an operation in northern Mali, according to the Defence Ministry. The removal of a prominent leader helps to dismantle the networks and disrupt terrorist activities in the region, Defence Minis ...

French forces have killed a top jihadist leader, Yahya Abou El Hamame, in an operation in Mali, Defence Minister Florence Parly said Friday. The Algerian, a commander in Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), was reputedly responsible for kidnapping a number of Westerners in North and West Africa. A ministry statement issued in Paris s ...

European and Arab leaders are to hold their first summit Sunday, in what the top EU diplomat sees as a chance to boost cooperation across a troubled Mediterranean region. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will host the two-day summit in Egypt 39;s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss topics like security, trade, development and migrat ...

The family of a London teenager who joined the Islamic State group in Syria said Friday it would challenge the British government 39;s decision to revoke her citizenship. Shamima Begum travelled to Syria in 2015 aged just 15 but has now fled the crumbling caliphate and says she wants to come home, after giving birth in a refugee camp las ...

More than 150,000 children are not going to school in Burkina Faso because of the threat of jihadist violence, the education minster has said, warning of a deteriorating situation in the West African nation. More than 1,100 schools have been forced to close or temporarily shutdown due to assaults and threats by radical Islamists, Stanisla ...

Kong. Visit the mosque, suggests a battered road sign outside a dusty little town in northern Ivory Coast which is getting a makeover thanks to its best-known son. Unusually for a town of its diminutive size, Kong has two historic mosques, both in the clay desert fashion known as the Sudanese style, with a brand-new high school, tarred hi ...

Former Springbok Cornal Hendricks debuts for the Northern Bulls in Super Rugby this Saturday, four years after being told not to play again because of a heart condition. Winger Hendricks replaces meningitis victim Johnny Kotze for a second-round clash with the Jaguares in the only change from the team that thrashed Western Stormers last wee ...

Africa 39;s biggest film festival marks its 50th anniversary on Saturday, buoyed by its contributions to the continent 39;s cinema industry but overshadowed by security problems in host country Burkina Faso. Fespaco -- the acronym in French of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou -- unfolds in the Burkina capital ev ...