A relentless giant is stirring in North Africa. The Sahara Desert, already the size of the continental United States, grows ...

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

Art Wolfe follows the Niger river road to the villages of the cliff-dwelling Dogon people. Mali is more than the Sahara; it is a place where the Niger River flows past some of Africa’s unique tribal ...

Libya’s institutional path, question of whether destabilizing dynamics from Sahel and Sudan will exceed manageable limits, ...

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

Last week’s military takeover in Guinea-Bissau is the latest in a series of coups that has engulfed west Africa in recent years. Almost all have taken place in the Sahel, the semi-arid belt below the ...

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 ...

The Sahel region's Great Green Wall Initiative received a major boost from the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) on Monday. During a forum hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and His ...

Security forces and armed groups are committing war crimes against civilians in Africa's Sahel region, where extremists and rebels are increasingly fighting to exert dominance and control resources in ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Dozens of Wagner mercenaries were killed by jihadis and rebels over the weekend in northern Mali in what one analyst described on Monday as the largest battleground blow to the ...

The head of an alliance of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger declared Tuesday that the launch of a joint battalion “must be followed by large-scale operations in the coming days" in a region plagued by ...