Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa’s Sahel region, while on his way ...

En route to the interview in Gao, northern Mali, in April 2021, Dubois, a correspondent for Libération and Jeune Afrique publications, was kidnapped. He spent 711 days in desert captivity ...

BAMAKO, Mali -- A rebel alliance in Mali said Tuesday it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last week. The Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), a coalition of separatist armed ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A rebel group in Mali says it ... s kidnapping came months after a Swiss tourist traveling in the desert was killed.

NIAMEY, Jan 12 (Reuters) - An Austrian woman was kidnapped in the desert town of Agadez in central ... Niger, like its neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso, is battling groups linked to al Qaeda ...

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the city became part of the Mali Empire and became central to the empire’s wealth and prosperity. Its geographical location, sitting on the edge of the Sahara desert with access to the River ...

Algeria and Mali share a vast 1,300-kilometre (800-mile) desert border in the Sahel region of North Africa which is difficult to monitor. The region plays host to Tuareg rebel groups and Al-Qaeda ...

The security situation in the Sahel — a region south of the Sahara desert, stretching from Senegal ... In 2013, it launched Operation Serval in Mali, replaced in 2014 by Operation Barkhane ...