Since mid-February 2025, competing terrorist factions branching off from the Boko Haram organization have engaged in a new wave of armed conflict, just two weeks after the failure of an ...

A solar power plant in this rural corner of Mali has jolted a village to life and awakened dreams of steady power in this ...

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, was sworn in Wednesday as the country’s president for a transition period of ...

The junta successfully built a strong anti-French sentiment in Francophone African ...

Islamist militants killed at least 44 civilians and severely injured 13 others during an attack on a mosque in southwest Niger on Friday, the country's defence ministry said.

As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three ...

The three Sahelian states’ split from ECOWAS is reducing security cooperation at a time when West Africa is battling numerous ...

On Monday, the alliance’s spokeswoman, Oria Vande Weghe, said Burkina Faso and Niger had also decided to remove their countries from the organization. “At the last summit, 5 new members joined ...

The number of countries experiencing at least one terrorist ... has shifted from the Middle East and North Africa to the Sahel region. Burkina Faso was the country most impacted by terrorism ...

The Sahel is this semi-arid region just north of where I am in Lagos - in Nigeria - and it covers this belt of countries from Guinea-Bissau - which ... It now accounts for 1 in 5 attacks from militant ...