The countries of the Sahel Confederation AES, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, continue in their project of mutual integration ...

Ochieng said IS Sahel’s strategy appears increasingly focused on exploiting security gaps beyond their core Sahelian ...

Data compiled by IEP show that the Sahel remained the epicenter of terrorism in 2024, having held the undesirable title in 2023 as well. The region accounted for nearly half of al ...

The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all terrorism-related deaths", according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).

The Sahel is at acute risk of becoming a global flashpoint, with extremist groups gaining ground across the region, and external powers waging proxy conflicts and reshaping critical-mineral supply ...

IS-Sahel has reportedly doubled the amount of territory it controls in Mali since the country's coups of 2020 and 2021 - largely in the east near its borders with Burkina Faso and Niger - while ...

In the Sahel - a semi-arid region south of the Sahara ... pipeline to take oil from the landlocked country to Seme, an Atlantic port in neighbouring Benin. CNPC has invested more than US$4 billion ...

Beijing’s backing of Niger’s military junta is not an isolated policy. In the Sahel – a semi-arid region south of the Sahara desert – China is also supporting the military juntas of ...

20, Ivory Coast became the latest African nation to expel French troops, taking control of the last remaining French military base in the country ... presence in the Sahel region, after the ...

Mali — As four years of coups have transformed the Sahel, military juntas have repeatedly targeted journalists and advocates for democracy. When the coup-makers in Mali suspended that country ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Togo Robert Dussey has again raised the possibility of the country joining the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). In a social ...