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 ...

People of the Dong ethnic group celebrate Sama Festival in Sanbaodong village, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province, on March 15. [Photo/Xinhua] Sanbaodong village in ...

People of the Dong ethnic group celebrate Sama Festival in Sanbaodong village, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province, on March 15. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

The Trump administration's sweeping foreign aid cuts mean that support is now gone, even as violence in Mali and other countries in the Sahel region ... Different ethnic groups lived next to ...

Aminata Doumbia, president of the women's group, sits next to a pit on farmland that was leased with help from USAID but has not yet been cultivated because the funding has ceased in Kimbirila ...

Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation of 23 million people in Sahel, an arid strip of land ... has exacerbated tensions between ethnic groups. Data gathered by the Armed Conflict Location and Event ...

“The gruesome videos of an apparent massacre by pro-government militias in Burkina Faso underscore the pervasive lack of accountability of these forces,” Ilaria Allegrozzi, senior Sahel researcher at ...

HRW said the victims appear to be ethnic ... Sahel researcher at HRW, said in the statement. The incident took place in and around the city of Solenzo on March 10 and 11, the rights group said.

and established the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). Addressing the situation, President Mahama highlighted that the primary reason behind the exit of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger from ECOWAS is a ...