LONDON – Africa’s Sahel region is enduring a period of rapid change – and deepening instability. Military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger – now known as the Central Sahel – have rejected ...

For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.Tens of thousands of people have ...

The Chinese Embassy in Mali has reportedly refused to recognize passports issued by the Alliance of Sahel States, AES, a ...

Russia's goal, according to Constantin Gouvy of the Clingendael Institute, is to replace Western powers such as France as the ...

Cote d'Ivoire has become the latest country to expel French troops, following a similar departure from Chad in January. With ...

China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held ...

Moroccan authorities have dismantled a terrorist cell planning attacks for the Islamic State in the Sahel. This highlights ...

The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) held a press conference today at its Sale headquarters providing details ...

SALE, Morocco — Moroccan authorities this month arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel, a region south of the Sahara Desert ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is one of eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs) recognized by the African Union (AU). Until ...

NIAMEY, Niger — As Islamist extremist groups have wrested large swaths of territory from government control in the Sahel, young men have streamed into their ranks, often compelled more by ...

A sign for the Alliance of Sahel States is seen in Niamey, Niger, in February 2024. And as the dictators, militants and Russians press forward, the United States has seen its influence in this ...