The Sahel region's shift towards non-Western powers raises questions about stability and influence. The AES, a military-led defense pact, signals a complex geopolitical shift.

The analyzed area looks at two areas – the Sahel region and the Sahel proper. After designing the system, the academics calculated its water harvesting and energy production potential in the ...

Insurgents are expanding from West Africa’s Sahel region toward Atlantic coastal nations such as Ivory Coast, creating new terrorism hot spots and displacing millions.

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

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 ...

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 ...

‘Fire in the Sahel’ 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 ...