In Africa's turbulent Sahel region, the Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM jihadist group is expanding its influence by repeated massacres, ...

In the Sahel, violent terrorism--now structural--and various forms of trafficking, including that of migrants, are linked structural realities. The agonizing Trans borders cooperation is dwindling.

In Ghana, Sahel jihadis find refuge and supplies, sources say By David Lewis and Maxwell Akalaare Adombila October 26, 2024 2:25 PM UTC Updated October 26, 2024 ...

As armed groups shift away from direct confrontations with the military, commercial drones are increasingly used to carry out attacks.

On 30 June 2025 in Ouagadougou, representatives from six member countries of the Desert to Power Initiative approved key strategic documents to boost independent power production in the Sahel, at the ...

Macron also dismissed the notion that French troops had been expelled from the Sahel, an area that sits just below the Sahara Desert, as Paris’ influence on its former colonies wanes.

The African Sahel region stands on the brink of a major security and political crisis, with terrorist threats on the rise and state institutions crumbling. In recent years, the Sahel area of ...

The Sahel region was therefore perceived by European policymakers as largely a remote desert area prone to drought and in need of infrastructure and humanitarian aid. Since the fall of Muammar ...

The "Atlantic Initiative" promises ocean access to Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger through a new $1.3-billion port in the former ...

Speaking in Yobe State more than two weeks ago, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant-General Olufemi Oluyede, told Governor Mai Mala Buni that the “The Sahel is on fire. If we allow that ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Soldiers from Burkina Faso patrol on the road of Gorgadji in the Sahel area, Burkina Faso March 3, 2019.REUTERS/Luc Gnago/File Photo ...