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 ...

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 ...

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 ...