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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

"We don’t see this as a challenge but a next step." Officials weigh sweeping ban that will have major impact on restaurants: ...

Two Islamist armed groups have killed several dozen civilians in three separate attacks in northern Burkina Faso since May ...