The fighting between Islamic State in Greater Sahara (ISGS) and al Qaeda Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) began at the beginning of 2020 when a large group of JNIM fighters defected to Islamic State

A military court in Somalia has sentenced a militant Islamist to life in prison for his role in a deadly attack on a US base in Kenya. Farhan Mohamud Hassan was also convicted of being

In the past week alone, Somalia has been the scene of over a dozen deadly terror attacks by al-Shabab. The Islamist militant group is seen to be bent on thwarting the forthcoming elections in the

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for killing six French aid workers, their driver and a local guide in a wildlife park in Niger last month.

Nigerians in the northeastern states of Borno and Yobe are mourning the death of a military commander who was fatally wounded in an ambush by Boko Haram militants and remembered as a hero.

Kenyan lawmakers want the operating costs of a Chinese-built railway nearly cut in half and have called for renegotiating the Chinese loan to finance the line’s construction. Parliament’s Transport Committee says huge operating losses and

The University of Maiduguri has stayed open at the epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency. A new book gives voice to the Nigerian academics who faced off with the radical Islamists who reject Western education

Authorities tighten security, step up arrests as demonstrators prepare to take part in ‘Friday of Anger’ rallies. Egypt is bracing for another day of protests as anger over corruption and deteriorating living conditions mounts.