Since withdrawing from ECOWAS, the post-coup countries have inaugurated a new bank, TV station and joint military force.

President Trump said the targets of airstrikes in Nigeria were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians, ...

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have moved to tighten regional security coordination with the official launch of a joint military force, a new alliance-driven effort to confront Islamist violence and ...

Sixteen precision munitions were launched from a platform in the Gulf of Guinea against two major ISIS enclaves in the Bauni ...

Two U.S. spy planes previously stationed in Ivory Coast Rising jihadist attacks in Mali threaten shared border Ivory Coast offers launching point for Sahel operations DAKAR/ABIDJAN, Dec 11 (Reuters) - ...

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 archaeologist and a German medical doctor in ...

THE Alliance of Sahel States (AES) has taken a decisive step toward regional self-defence after officially launching a joint ...

Africa’s political and economic outlook in 2026 is defined less by crisis than by contradiction. Fewer elections are ...

Although officials did not say which group was targeted, security analysts said the target is most likely the Lakurawa group, ...

Facing a growing terror threat in the Sahel, the Trump administration could discover that its avoidance of “long-term ...