Reports say Islamist fighters have erected checkpoints to restrict the flow of goods and extort "taxes" from traders. They ...

Gunmen on motorbikes have shot dead 22 people, most of them attending a baptism ceremony, in an attack on a village in ...

Amid a recent spike in violence by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group and its offshoots, experts warn that it could be ...

Once limited to armies, armed drones are now used by terrorists in the Sahel, transforming the nature of the conflict.

Ghana envoy Larry Gbevlo-Lartey says the Accra Initiative plans to include the Alliance of Sahel States after talks at Thabo ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations on Wednesday underlined the urgent need to close a $6 billion funding shortfall to expand ...

As several Sahel countries face growing insecurity and their media are heavily pressured, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is ...

Mauritania’s new LNG exports and potential Abraham Accords partnership could reshape its economy, drawing investment in ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has stressed that countries in the ECOWAS subregion and the Sahel ...

The Sahel region faces complex security crises driven by violent extremism, farmer-herder conflicts and banditry. Extremism is the major driver of violence.

Resilience and creativity are deeply rooted in Sahelian societies. Today, every artistic project, every cultural initiative, is a direct response to the daily challenges and an act of social ...

The unified government e-services application, “Sahel,” has completed 111 million electronic transactions over four years, ...