President Donald Trump ordered Christmas airstrikes against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria, targeting ISIS ...

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 south ...

The Sahel region is the “epicenter of terrorism," Gen. Michael Langley said. The Sahel region in Africa is now the “epicenter of terrorism on the globe,” a four ...

Jihadists have intensified their offensives in the Sahel region in recent weeks, carrying out bloody raids in Mali, incursions into major cities in Burkina Faso and inflicting heavy army losses in ...

The Sahel crisis is one of the world’s fastest-growing emergencies . This year, almost 29 million people need life-saving assistance and protection–that’s 5 million more people than last year. “This ...

A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who ...

While the United States and Israel focus on threats from the Iranian-dominated Shia crescent stretching from Lebanon to Yemen, Tehran is quietly laying the groundwork for a second Iranian crescent ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is alarmed over escalating violence in the Sahel region which has seen hundreds of innocent civilians targeted in recent weeks, triggered more displacement and is ...

The Social Enterprise Fund for Agriculture in Africa (SEFAA), managed by Sahel Capital, has secured a $10 million investment from the Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund, according to a LinkedIn ...

The Nigerien military announced on 11 December that 71 soldiers had been killed and 12 others wounded during a complex assault by Islamist militants on a remote military camp in the rural commune of ...

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned about the fast-growing humanitarian crisis in the Sahel Region. In the Central Sahel countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, over 3.3 ...