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

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

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

U.S.-backed airstrikes targeted Islamic State-linked camps in northwest Nigeria, with debris from the operation damaging ...

In early 2025, Chinese engineers working on Niger’s $4.6 billion oil pipeline to Benin were forced to flee their worksites under armed escort. For days, convoys burned on the desert highway linking ...

Attacks by Islamist militants and other armed groups are raging across the politically divided Sahel region, which has seen a number of coups in recent years, with juntas withdrawing from the regional ...

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Tuesday for Sahel nations to put aside their differences to tackle mounting attacks by armed groups in an African ...

In recent years, Sahel-based terrorists have been moving southwards to largely ungoverned spaces in West Africa. They "harbor strategic minerals and materials such as timber, which have become sources ...

The sea looks the same. So does the sand. But in Egypt, two beach communities not far from each other have decidedly different ideas about fun. People enjoying the beach in Sahel el-Tayeb, a village ...

Analysts claim the withdrawal of U.S. and European troops from countries in Africa’s Sahel, and their replacement by Russian mercenaries, has led to a spike in jihadist-driven terrorism. The Sahel is ...