Saudi Arabia added six names and entities to its terrorism blacklist for providing Daesh with financial support, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Wednesday.

Airstrikes in Yemen’s northern al-Jawf province killed least seven civilians on Wednesday, according to residents and an official with the Houthi rebel group who put the death toll at nine.

Earlier this week, Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, attempted to assassinate Somalia’s top general in Mogadishu in a suicide bombing. The attack is the latest in a series of strikes against Somali government

International Crisis Group, a well-regarded NGO, has issued a thoughtful evaluation of the effort by Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, and Niger to coordinate their military efforts against Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin. The coordinating

After media reports on Wednesday that Ethiopia has started impounding the Blue Nile at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, without having concluded an agreement with Egypt and Sudan on the matter, the two downstream countries

On Tuesday, opposition politicians rejected concessions proposed by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, days after major street protests roiled the capital Bamako, leaving at least eleven dead. The demonstrators, led by prominent Islamist Mahmoud Dicko, demand