The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has launched a 5,000-member regional counterterrorism force to tackle the growing influence of jihadist groups, particularly Islamic State’s (IS) ...

The new international situation worsens the risks coming from Africa: the activity of Morocco, the alliance of Algeria with ...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

Terrorism in the Sahel has increased significantly, with deaths rising nearly tenfold since 2019, according to the Global ...

Beneath the ideological bluster, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is just the latest in a long line of African martial impostors.

A regional mission in Guinea-Bissau by ECOWAS ended prematurely amid electoral disputes and tensions over when President ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa.

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. The EU is closely monitoring ...

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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. The violence, which started in ...

During the 2023 Niger coup, Russian content creators falsely ... Russia has also expanded its cultural influence in the Sahel, establishing "Russian Houses" across the region.

In the Sahel - a semi-arid region south of the Sahara ... another Sahelian country hit by multiple coups, to provide it with military equipment, training and technology transfer in key areas ...