A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with ...

Djiby Sow Senior Researcher, ISS Regional Office for West Africa and the Sahel Fahiraman Rodrigue Koné Project Manager, Sahel, ISS Regional Office for West Africa and the Sahel Climate change does not ...

Niger authorities say an attack by a jihadi group ... cooperation by establishing a new security alliance, the Alliance of Sahel States. But the security situation in the Sahel, a vast region ...

The Sahel is also grappling with a multidimensional security crisis that began in Mali in 2012 and spread to Burkina Faso and Niger in 2015. All three countries face a proliferation and expansion ...

The Sahel stretches from the west coast of Africa eastwards across the continent. The GTI's definition of the region includes parts of 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Cameroon ...

Burkinabe dictator, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, is the dashing poster boy for military rule in the West African Sahel. Not too long ... Mali, and Niger comes from young people understandably put ...

The insurgency in West Africa's Sahel region started when Islamist militants took over territory in north Mali after a 2012 Tuareg rebellion. It has since spread into neighbouring Niger and ...

The Alliance of Sahel Institute for Security Studies (ASISS ... reintegrating repentant insurgents in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. The initiative, which takes a community-driven approach ...

NIAMEY - Islamist militants killed at least 44 civilians and severely injured 13 others during an attack on a mosque in southwest Niger on Friday, the country's defence ministry said. The attack ...

Two days later, a military outpost on the other side of the Sahel country was attacked ... according to the army. Landlocked Niger is governed by a junta that seized power in a July 2023 ...

The European Union has donated €50m worth of non-lethal military equipment to Ghana to bolster its security forces as extremist threats from the Sahel region escalate ... With Mali, Niger and Burkina ...