Sahel countries launch a joint battalion to fight armed groups as they boost ties with Russia amid rising insecurity.

Mali and Burkina Faso are the latest to issue ‘tit-for-tat’ bans on visas for US citizens with immediate effect.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Thursday discussed ways to boost military ties with the Sahel countries, promising to train their troops and supply weapons as it seeks to expand its clout in the junta-led ...

China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held at the Chinese embassy in the capital Niamey. In front of Chinese ambassador ...

The Sahel Alliance will hold its second general assembly in N'Djamena, Chad on Monday, 15 February 2021. The meeting will take place on the side-lines of a summit for the G5 Sahel countries— Burkina ...

Africa’s Sahel region and its northern belt have remained among the most active centers of irregular migration and human ...

Displaced persons and refugees cross Africa's Sahel and lake chad region are set to benefit from a relief fund raised through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief). The fund ...

Russia’s proxies have few solutions to offer when tackling West Africa and the Sahel’s problems. On July 28, 2024, dozens of Wagner fighters were killed in an ambush by Tuareg rebels on the outskirts ...

MOSCOW, May 29. /TASS/. Moscow observes Western-supplied arms ending up with gangs active across the African continent as Kiev trains fighters in Sahel countries and backs local extremist groups, ...

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president Hissène Habré kidnapped a French ...

Malian politician and public figure Aliu Tunkara believes that "France will not ignore the withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from The Francophonie" RABAT, March 24. /TASS/. The decision of ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for an end to the unrelenting violence in Africa’s Sahel which has now displaced more than two million people within the borders of their countries for the ...