The number of people killed in Africa’s central Sahel region is surging this year, contradicting the claims by the military rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso and now Niger that they are tackling ...

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 ...

ACCRA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday warned that a rampant Islamist insurgency in West Africa's Sahel is threatening to engulf the entire region.

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.

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.

Africa's Sahel region accounts for more than half of terror-related killings, a new reports says. 5 Mar 2025. Africa. 11 Feb 2025. Why some Ghanaians are fighting in insurgency-hit Burkina Faso.

A joint force of 5,000 troops from military-led neighbours Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali will soon deploy in their troubled central Sahel region, Niger's defence chief said on state television.

Army strongmen who have seized power in coups across Africa's Sahel region since 2020 have ramped up pressure on foreign mining companies in the name of greater control over their countries' riches.

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 ...