For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. The ISSP follows the hard line of ...

The Trump administration's sweeping cuts in foreign aid have impacted programs in northern Ivory Coast to counter the spread of al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

February 19, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. ESTyesterday at 5:00 a.m. EST 6 min Across the breadth of Africa, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, stretches ... for the Alliance of Sahel States is seen ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Togo Robert Dussey has again raised the possibility of the country joining the Alliance of ...

The Sahel region was the epicentre of global "terrorism" for the second straight year in 2024, accounting for more than half of deaths put down to terror attacks worldwide, according to the Global ...

The Sahel is this semi-arid region just north of where I am in Lagos - in Nigeria - and it covers this belt of countries from Guinea-Bissau - which is along the Atlantic - to Sudan on the Red Sea.