Some are nationalist groups including those calling for an independent Tuareg State in northern Mali, while others are more influenced by pan-Islamic movements and claim to be part of either Al-Qaeda ...

(Ian Langsdon, Pool via AP) MARSEILLE, France (CN) — France’s decades-long military presence in the Sahel is officially over. France handed over its last base in Chad Thursday after President Mahamat ...

Kidnappings have skyrocketed in the Sahel in recent years, according to data from the U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, or ACLED. JNIM, the Sahelian branch of al-Qaida, has been ...

Kidnappings have skyrocketed in the Sahel in recent years, according to data from the U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, or ACLED. JNIM, the Sahelian branch of al-Qaida ...

NIAMEY - 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 ... linked to Al Qaeda and Islamic ...

They lie in the region known as the Sahel, which stretches between the dry Sahara desert in the north and the more humid savannas to the south. Each has been wracked by attacks by terrorists allied ...

(AP Photo, File) DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region against ..

Three junta-ruled countries in Africa's Sahel region will join forces to create ... Each has been wracked by attacks by jihadists allied with either Al-Qaeda or Islamic State for a decade ...

Junta-Led Sahel States Ready Joint Force of 5,000 Troops ... Violence fuelled by a decade-long fight with Islamist groups linked to Al Qaeda and Islamic State has worsened since the coups.