For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. Tens of thousands of people ...

Africa's Sahel region accounts for more than half of terror-related killings, a new reports says.

The vast region in Africa that lies just south of the Sahara Desert and encompasses 10 countries ... AKINWOTU: Yes. The Sahel is this semi-arid region just north of where I am in Lagos - in ...

An ambitious and bold project looks to help desertification in Africa and to combat African nations from being swallowed up ...

The connection? Both Moroccan and Spanish authorities said the groups were aligned with Islamic State in The Sahel. The group is best known for wreaking a devastating wave of violence across ...

SALE, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan authorities this month arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel, a region south of the Sahara Desert, officials ...

As long as terrorist groups exploit illicit trade networks, the risk of their expansion into North Africa and Europe remains ...

01:28 Great wall of Taklamakan: China surrounds its largest desert with green belt Great ... as a diplomatic and economic opportunity. The Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching from Senegal to ...

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.

The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of ... Its new report says that in this semi-arid area to the south of the Sahara Desert 3,885 people out of a worldwide total of 7,555 died.