Vladimir Putin is expanding Russia’s presence in the Sahel by helping Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger build a shared ...

Togo is supporting juntas in the Sahel region by its extradition of Burkina Faso's former transitional president, as part of its own diplomatic, security and economic ambitions, several experts have ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Malian authorities to reverse a ban on the privately owned French magazine, Jeune Afrique. The magazine was accused of "glorifying terrorism" ...

The violent convergence of the Sudanese civil war and Chadian sovereign security reached a critical threshold last week, ...

After Ouagadougou, wherever next? For the second time in two months, foreigners and locals have been slaughtered in a West African city hotel by a clutch of jihadi gunmen. On November 20, 2015, the ...

On 6 June 2025, private military company Wagner announced they would be withdrawing from Mali. "Mission accomplished”, declared the mercenary group via ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso, left, General Assimi Goita of Mali, centre, and General Abdourahamane Tchiani of Niger ...

The ECOWAS Commission conferred with a delegation from the Kingdom of the Netherlands through its Department of Political ...

Terrorist organisation, Islamic State Sahel, IS-Sahel, has executed four ‘idol worshippers’ and two sorcerers in northeast ...

A new report from Catholic Relief Services has found that growing violence in the Sahel region of West Africa is impacted by economic inequality, creating one of the fastest growing humanitarian ...