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The Russia-backed Wagner Group says it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists ...
The Wagner Group has announced it is withdrawing from Mali following what it called "the completion of its main mission" in ...
Jihadists have intensified their offensives in the Sahel region in recent weeks, carrying out bloody raids in Mali, ...
Ghana said on Thursday it views a Moroccan autonomy plan as the sole basis to settle the Western Sahara dispute within the ...
Once the next dust cloud reaches Florida, people can expect to see hazier skies. “Typically, we have nice blue skies, but with the dust, the whole sky looks soft and warm, because the particles ...
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Shifting powers in the Sahel
The political and economic tides are turning across West and Central Africa.
Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley described the Sahel region, which includes Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, as “the epicenter ...
The U.S. military’s top general in Africa said terrorist factions in the Sahel region have increased their presence so much in the past three years that they soon may be able to launch attacks ...
Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara-Sahel stretches across Africa between the desert and the great savanna. Though dozens of tribes ...
Christopher Musa, the chief of defence staff, says terrorists are intensifying attacks across the Sahel region. Musa spoke on Friday after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu, the security chiefs ...
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, on Friday warned that jihadist factions expelled from the central Sahel are slipping across the country’s vast borders and stoking fresh ...
We are working extremely hard.” The Defence Chief pointed to a growing regional threat across the Sahel, which he said has been spilling into Nigeria due to porous borders. “What has happened ...