The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

A recent ambush by criminals near Niger's border with Burkina Faso resulted in the death of at least 10 soldiers. The ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso ...

"The rise of junta rule in the Sahel represents a complex interplay between decolonization and destabilization." ...

At least two Chinese nationals working for the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) have been abducted by suspected ISIS SAHEL militants in Niger. The attack, which took place on Sunday in ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having ...

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

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community ... conflict-related abuses against civilians are rife in the Sahel region and access to national courts is increasingly ...

The U.S. has also been made to pull out of the Sahel, with Niger demanding Washington withdraw about 1,000 troops last year and close its largest drone base in Africa. The U.S. has been struggling ...

Ghana positions Colonel Larry Gbevlo-Lartey as the key liaison to the Alliance of Sahel States (AoSS) to improve the fractured relationship with Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, who will all have ...

NIAMEY, Jan 12 (Reuters) - An Austrian woman was kidnapped in the desert town of Agadez in central Niger on Saturday ... across West Africa's central Sahel region over the past decade.

Before last year’s coup, Niger was seen as one of the last democratic countries in Africa’s Sahel region that Western nations could partner with to beat back the rebellion. The Economic ...