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The end of the road is now in sight for France, which has maintained its military presence and influence in Africa for a long ...

Burkinabe dictator, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, is the dashing poster boy for military rule in the West African Sahel. Not too long ... in South Africa is a perfect illustration—seems motivated ...

The Director of Research, Centre for Population and Environmental Development, Dr Johnson Dudu, has decried the prevailing ...

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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los ...

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.

Over half of all terrorism-related deaths in the world occur in the Sahel. That's according to a new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace. The vast region in Africa that lies just ...