Over the last decade, West Africa has been shaken by extremist uprisings and military coups. Groups linked to al-Qaida and ...

Burkinabe dictator, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, is the dashing poster boy for military rule in the West African Sahel. Not too long ... to a certain kind of martial music is so enamored of Traoré ...

President Mahama’s visit to Ouagadougou is his second to the Sahel region since his assumption of the presidency in January this year to rebuild the friendship between Ghana and the Sahel countries.

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Country music legend Alan Jackson is down to two shows left in his iconic career. Well, two shows, plus an appearance at the Two Step Inn 2025 festival in Texas on April 5. Jackson performed ...

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 ...

Known as the Great Green Wall (GGW), the project aims to restore the Sahel and Horn of Africa in an African-led initiative. The cost of this new initiative sits at an eye-watering £34.9 billion a ...

This is the highest number of countries deteriorating because of terrorism since 2018. According to the data from the Global Terrorism Index, Sahel (a biogeographical region in Africa) is the top ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Gold panners break stones in Kidal, Mali, on Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed, File) A gold miner holds ...

The recent formal exit of the Alliance of Sahel States or Alliance d’Etats Sahel, AES, from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is a big blow to Africa’s best known regional ...

Yankin na Sahel da ke nahiyar Afirka, shi ne "cibiyar ta'addanci ta duniya", kuma a karon farko yanzu shi ne "ke da fiye da rabi na yawan ayyukan da suka shafi ta'addanci a duniya baki ɗaya", a ...