The Sahel, an African region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean on the West Coast to the Red Sea on the East Coast, is often reduced to an area of armed conflicts and security crises by the ...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, wrapped up in Burkina Faso a three-nation visit to the Sahel region, and expressed his alarm about the rapidly deteriorating situation across the ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today warns of disastrous consequences in Africa’s Sahel region, unless humanitarian efforts are urgently supported in what has become the world’s fastest growing ...

NIAMEY, Jan 22 (Reuters) - A joint force of 5,000 troops from military-led neighbours Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali will soon deploy in their troubled central Sahel region, Niger's defence chief said ...