Heat, drought and floods are growing security risks, Western defense officials say, feeding instability and violence that ...

The U.N. human rights chief has accused Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a second major city in eastern Congo of killing ...

The UN human rights chief accused Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a second major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Niamey, January 30, 2025, SPA -- The Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) launched the second phase of its Sahel Countries Program in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Nigerien Minister of ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

Africa’s prospects for this year are dim, owing to the resurgence of warlordism and the continued weakness of regional ...

Despite their citizens being among Africa’s poorest, Mali, Niger,and Burkina Faso boast mineral riches beyond the dreams of most nations. All three Sahel countries have sizable gold deposits, and ...

Too often, the Western Sahara conflict is viewed as the root cause of tensions between Algiers and Rabat. Analyzing Algeria-Morocco relations through the lens of this conflict is, however, not only ...

Kosseï camp in the capital N'Djamena was also the last of its bases in the Sahel, which were themselves a legacy of France's domination of the region as ... director of the Africa programme ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannah in the south. It is characterised by ...

(Ian Langsdon, Pool via AP) MARSEILLE, France (CN) — France’s decades-long military presence in the Sahel is officially over ... This was France's last foothold in the region, West Africa's vast ...

as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, secured a rare interview with a leader of JNIM, an al-Qaida’s affiliate in the Sahel. Or so he thought. En route to ...