Authorities blame the deadly attack in the town of Kokorou on the Islamic State in the Great Sahara, an ISIL affiliate.

Niger expelled three Chinese oil executives amid a salary dispute, where expatriate staff earned significantly more than ...

The U.S. decision to cut aid to developing countries and shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has raised concerns, especially in the Sahel and Sahara regions. These areas ...

With its tomato patches and grazing cattle, the Ivory Coast village of Kimbirila-Nord hardly looks like a front line of the ...

Although climate change does not directly cause conflict, it makes violence more likely to occur and to be more intense. The ...

Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation of 23 million people in Sahel, an arid strip of land south of the Sahara ... Data gathered by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project show that militia ...

As the old adage goes, “When it rains, it pours.” This is precisely the case for residents and businesses of the embattled Ditsobotla Local Municipality in the North West. Violent clashes have ...

Over half of all terrorism-related deaths in the world occur in the Sahel. That's according to a new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace. The vast region in Africa that lies just ...