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

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

As 2026 begins, a review of the 2025 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) highlights how African countries continued to bear the ...

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

Central Asia, the Sahel region and northern Europe experienced their hottest year on record in 2025, according to AFP ...

The 5000-strong force is the latest in a series of measures by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to achieve closer integration ...

The foundation of governance – peace, security, and stability – seemed shaken in several parts of Africa, exposing a sizable ...

Mali and Burkina Faso are the latest to issue ‘tit-for-tat’ bans on visas for US citizens with immediate effect.

Africa’s strategic minerals are no longer just economic assets. They are levers of power. Gold in the Sahel, cobalt and lithium in the DRC, fuel alliances, arm militias and shape global partnerships.

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

As the West African country of Mali teeters on becoming the first nation on the continent to be ruled by an al Qaeda–linked terror organization, a State Department ...

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