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. Tens of thousands of people ...
AKINWOTU: Yes. 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 ...
LONDON - Africa’s Sahel region is enduring a period of rapid change - and deepening instability. Military juntas in Mali, ...
The Sahel is sometimes referred to as the "coup belt" of Africa. Since 2020 there have been six successful coups in the region as defined by the GTI report: two in Mali, two in Burkina Faso, one in ...
Religious extremists, military officers and Russian mercenaries have all trained their ambitions on this broad belt of Africa known as the Sahel, wedged between the Sahara to the north and the ...
As The Washington Post’s West Africa bureau chief based in Senegal, I’ve reported from nine countries across the Sahel over the past 2½ years. I’ve covered three coups, the arrival of ...
AKINWOTU: Yes. 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 ...
The Sahel is sometimes referred to as the "coup belt" of Africa. Since 2020 there have been six successful coups in the region as defined by the GTI report: two in Mali, two in Burkina Faso ...