DAKAR, Senegal — A military alliance between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger withdrew their respective ambassadors from Algeria in response to the downing of a Malian drone this week, the group ...

Ulf Laessing, head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's Sahel regional program in neighboring Mali, said the concession is part of Niger's strategy to reduce its reliance on foreign companies for ...

But after jihadis attacked a nearby community in Mali five years ago and set up a base in a forest straddling the ... in Mali and other countries in the Sahel region south of the Sahara has ...

which came shortly after Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger recalled their ambassadors to Algiers in response to the downing of the Malian drone. The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), a confederation of ...

Jihadist groups remain active across the Sahel, where violence that began in Mali more than a decade ago has spread to neighbouring countries and displaced millions. In addition to defence ...

A military alliance between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger has withdrawn ... the group said late Sunday. The Alliance of Sahel States, which goes by its French acronym AES, blamed Algeria on social ...

Both Moroccan and Spanish authorities said the groups were aligned with Islamic State in The Sahel. The group is best ... across Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali, plunging these countries into chaos ...

From left, Niger Foreign Minister Bakary Yaou Sangare, Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye ... with foreign Ministers of the Confederation of Sahel States in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 3 ...