Sahel region increasingly difficult work area for journalists: report. Paris-based media watchdog Reporters without Borders (RSF) says in its latest report that journalists are facing growing ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Fourteen soldiers were killed and others were injured in an extremist attack in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region, the government said. A military convoy from the ...

Sahel elites must move away from ‘zero-sum’ policies, report urges . LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES – Newsaktuell – 30 April 2024 – A ...

In the Sahel region, most of the economic output comes from exporting raw materials. Gold, for example, accounts for 74 and 73 percent of export value in Burkina Faso and Mali respectively.

The Sahel region has become a focal point of deepening polarization between pro-Western “moderate” states and nations seeking independence from neo-colonial influence, relying instead on non ...

The military leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger said Saturday they would quit the G5 anti-jihadist force in Africa's Sahel area, the latest blow to the fight against insurgents in one of the world ...

Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have made the Sahel region of West Africa and the Gulf of Guinea nations "a priority for their strategy of expansion," French President Emmanuel Macron said ...

In the lawless and remote communities of the Sahel, jihadists increasingly hold sway. Yet one likely culprit in this incident, al Qaeda’s local affiliate JNIM, condemned the attack’s brutality.