Jihadists have intensified their offensives in the Sahel region in recent weeks, carrying out bloody raids in Mali, incursions into major cities in Burkina Faso and inflicting heavy army losses in ...

The Sahel scourge The region is home to the world's richest gold deposits, drawing global attention and facilitating illegal economies that thrive amid regional instability. According to a 2023 United ...

The Sahel continued as the region where most terrorist violence occurred in 2024, with Burkina Faso again the country with the most killings while Niger shot from 10th to fifth worst in the world ...

The Sahel region's shift towards non-Western powers raises questions about stability and influence. The AES, a military-led defense pact, signals a complex geopolitical shift.

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

According to the report, the Sahel region suffered 51% of global terrorism-related deaths and 19% of all worldwide terrorist attacks in 2024 ...

Gen. Michael Langley, the four-star Marine General who leads U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), said the Sahel region of the continent is now the "flashpoint of prolonged conflict and growing instability.

Still awaiting thanks for stopping Islamists in Sahel, Macron says. By Reuters. January 6, 2025 1:05 PM UTC Updated January 6, 2025 French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his speech ...

Spain will urge the European Union’s top diplomat to strengthen the bloc’s engagement with Africa’s Sahel region as part of a broader defense review, according to a person familiar with the ...

The U.S. is scrambling to assess the future of its counterterrorism operations in the Sahel region of Africa after the ruling junta in Niger announced it was ending military cooperation with ...