A joint force of 5,000 troops from military-led neighbours Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali will soon deploy in their troubled central Sahel region, Niger's defence chief said on state television. Juntas ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

The fighting has killed thousands and displaced millions across West Africa's central Sahel region over the past decade.

Benin and coastal neighbour Togo have both suffered attacks in recent years as groups linked to Islamic State and al Qaeda expanded their presence beyond West Africa's central Sahel region to the ...

Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin and the Islamic State Sahel Province have expanded across the central Sahel. During Mahama's Ecowas chairmanship and when he left office in 2017, the Middle East ...

By Reshmi Theckethil, Lead Portfolio, Climate Action, Disaster Risk Reduction, Energy, and Resilience | Sahel Resilience ...

Habboub Cherkaoui, head of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, said it foiled a 'dangerous terrorist plot', and ...

France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony ...