Burkina Faso's military leader Ibrahim Traoré attends John Dramani Mahama's swearing-in ceremony for his second term as Ghana's president, in Accra, Ghana, on January 7, 2025. Francis Kokoroko ...

The Alliance of Sahel Institute for Security Studies (ASISS), in collaboration with Norway, is set to adopt the Borno Model as a blueprint for addressing insecurity and reintegrating repentant ...

In Burkina Faso, teenagers listen to the Russian national anthem and artists paint a portrait of Putin in a graffiti festival. In Niger, citizens salute the Russian flag, chanting “Long live Russia, ...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that potentially life-saving food and nutrition assistance in Central Sahel and Nigeria will have to end next month, unless emergency funds can be ...

The recent formal exit of the Alliance of Sahel States or Alliance d’Etats Sahel, AES, from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is a big blow to Africa’s best known regional ...

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).

Beneath the ideological bluster, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is just the latest in a long line of African martial impostors. Burkinabe dictator, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, is the dashing poster ...

KUWAIT CITY, March 1: The Council of Ministers has instructed the Minister of State for Communications Affairs to complete the development of the unified government electronic services application ...

The European Union has donated €50m worth of non-lethal military equipment to Ghana to bolster its security forces as extremist threats from the Sahel region escalate. The EU is closely monitoring ...

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 ...