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 ...

Algerian soldiers take part in a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the Algerian Revolution in Algiers, Nov. 1, 2024 (photo by Billel Bensalem for APP/NurPhoto via AP). A series of coups ...

Nigerian security forces recently arrested two of the country’s most wanted militant leaders, Mahmud Muhammad Usman, the self-styled Emir of the al-Qaeda linked group, Ansaru, and his deputy, Mahmud ...

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 ...

BAMAKO – The top protection official of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commended Mali and its neighbours for keeping their borders open to people fleeing danger, and for upholding asylum principles in ...

Danger is not looming in the Sahel and the West African region. It is not news that it is intractable now. The real fear is that it may rise to a catastrophic dimension such that the world may ...

At the heart of the Sahel’s many crises, ranging from armed conflict and democratic erosion to climate-induced poverty, one thing stood out at the inaugural Sahel Governance Forum in Banjul: this is ...