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

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi held a phone call on Saturday with Gambian President Adama Barrow to discuss developments in ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Terrorism and organized crime by violent extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State are a “pervasive threat” in Africa’s volatile Sahel region and are spilling ...

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

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 ...

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

Jihadi fighters who had been operating in Africa’s Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin, following the trend of militants moving to wealthier West ...

Sudan’s ongoing humanitarian crisis after more than a year of civil war shows few signs of abating. And amid the fighting, a significant and troubling development looks set to complicate the conflict ...

The Africa Report explores four possible scenarios that could unfold in the Alliance of Sahel States over the next year.

Annalena Baerbock (L), Germany's Foreign Minister, meets her counterpart, Senegal's Foreign Minister Yacine Fall, for talks. The trip will focus on efforts to stabilize the Sahel region. Britta ...

Maradi, Niger. Army troops walk close to a water tower while on patrol near the Nigerian border in southern Niger. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images) However, the approach in such cases was punitive ...