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 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).

In the Sahel, human rights defenders are being targeted more than ... The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights-FIDH ...

Africa's Sahel region accounts for more than half of terror-related killings, a new reports says. Three men tell the BBC they have crossed the border multiple times to fight the military.

Terrorism in the Sahel has increased significantly, with deaths rising nearly tenfold since 2019, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2025, confirming the region’s reputation as the epicentre of ...

The new African Union (AU) leadership joins the Commission at a critical time where AU’s effectiveness in preventing, ...