Diplomatic tensions between Benin and its junta-led Sahel neighbours Niger and Burkina Faso have led to a security vacuum ...

Islamic militants attacked military posts in northern Benin, killing at least 54 soldiers. Previously, authorities reported ...

West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Thursday condemned an attack by suspected jihadists which killed 54 troops in northern ...

Benin's government says an attack by Islamic militants on military posts in northern Benin last week left at least 54 soldiers dead.

At least 54 soldiers were killed in a terror attack by suspected jihadists on military posts in Benin’s W National Park on ...

Benin's government has admitted that 54 soldiers were killed by suspected jihadists in the country's north last week near the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger. The authorities had previously ...

Benin deployed nearly 3,000 soldiers in January 2022 for the Mirador operation, before then recruiting another 5,000 soldiers ...

The Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate in the Sahel said it killed 70 soldiers in an attack ...

COTONOU - Benin's government said that 54 soldiers were killed in an attack in the country's north last week, providing a lower toll than reported by Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM. Read more at straitstimes ...

The Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate in the Sahel said it killed 70 soldiers in an attack ...

Government spokesman Wilfried Leandre Houngbedji gave the new toll to a press briefing on the April 17 attack in the W national park in northern Benin, close to the frontiers with Burkina Faso and ...