is set to broaden its focus beyond Nigeria’s internal conflicts to key regional crises across Africa, including the French withdrawal from the Sahel and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...

Local populations feel the effects of climate change, but new research shows only indirect links to violent extremism.

Across the Sahel, extremist groups are gaining ground. A possible return of conflict to the Tigray region must be assessed in this context. A belt of chaos stretching from the Sahel to the Horn of ...

They lead them to death and destruction. But this [climate change] is certainly one of the triggers, important factors to conflict in the Sahel." Western forces are helping to train local soldiers ...

Violent extremist organizations profoundly impact the Sahel and West Africa ... Extremist groups blend with a broader infrastructure of competition, conflict, and insecurity and cannot be ...

Launched on Wednesday, the 2025 edition showed that conflict deaths in the Sahel reached their highest level since the inception of the GTI, surpassing 25,000 for the first time in 2024, of which ...

Tuggar highlighted ongoing conflicts in Sudan, eastern Congo, and the Sahel, where the United Nations and other international bodies have often been ineffective in providing lasting solutions.

This prompted a French military intervention in 2013, plunging the Sahel into protracted conflict. Despite the 2015 peace agreement, jihadist groups continued to fight the state under the banners ...

The seminar introduces theoretical approaches and practical considerations to peace and conflict resolution with a focus on contemporary challenges to peace and security in Sahel Africa. More ...

A research project by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has concluded that while there is no direct link between climate change and terrorism in the Sahel, disrupted agricultural production ...

Climate change does not directly lead to more terrorism in the Central Sahel. Rather, factors associated with climate change appear to be a catalyst for localised conflicts, mainly driven by ...