The World Bank’s Pathways to Scale highlights how economic inclusion programs across the Sahel, especially those targeting ...

Bamako hosted the first Alliance of Sahel States Games. Over 500 athletes from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger competed in ...

The alliance of Sahel states have officially launched the Alliance of Agricultural Seed Producers of the Sahel (APSA-Sahel), ...

In Africa’s turbulent Sahel region, the Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM jihadist group is expanding its influence by repeated massacres, ...

The 2024 crisis exposed structural faults at the core of the West African regional body. At 50, can the once-great ...

Minister of State for Communications Affairs Omar Al-Omar on Saturday emphasized the ongoing commitment to enhance and update ...

Analysis - In the Sahel, violent terrorism--now structural--and various forms of trafficking, including that of migrants, are linked structural realities. The agonizing Trans borders cooperation is ...

Abidjan (AFP) — Army strongmen who have seized power in coups across Africa’s Sahel region since 2020 have ramped up pressure ...

PATROL: Soldiers from Burkina Faso in the Sahel area in March. REUTERS/Luc Gnago. The pits around Pama are no isolated case. Groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State, having lost ground in the ...

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

Sahel countries consistently rank [PDF] among the world’s poorest with compounding issues [PDF] of poverty, food insecurity, high unemployment, and the world’s fastest-growing population.

Barely a week goes by without news of a jihadist attack in the Sahel region. But Mauritania has not suffered a single such attack in the last decade. The BBC's Caroline Loyer asked Mauritanian ...