In the Sahel, a region plagued by jihadist violence, there are roads people steer clear of and others they travel on with ...

By Robert Bociaga As the first light pierced through storm clouds, swollen rivers spilled over their banks, sweeping through ...

The Sahel is this semi-arid region just north of where I am in Lagos - in Nigeria - and it covers this belt of countries from Guinea-Bissau - which is along the Atlantic - to Sudan on the Red Sea.

On 30 June 2025 in Ouagadougou, representatives from six member countries of the Desert to Power Initiative approved key strategic documents to boost independent power production in the Sahel, at the ...

The World Bank’s Pathways to Scale highlights how economic inclusion programs across the Sahel, especially those targeting ...

Security in the Sahel, one of the world’s most dynamic regions, requires concerted effort by all concerned countries. Alienating and castigating the hegemon power in the region will certainly ...

February 19, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. ESTyesterday at 5:00 a.m. EST 6 min Across the breadth of Africa, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, stretches a belt of turmoil. Nowhere else have Islamist ...

Analysis - Since 2005, the Sahel remains again and again weakened by terrorism! Due to the environment degradation, it is expanding and terrorism is spreading, taking root, and becoming commonplace.

Not all of the countries who overstay the most are on the list, either — Djibouti’s rate is 23 percent and Liberia’s 19 percent, according to the data, but neither is banned. Somalia, whose ...

Extremist attacks in Sahel, an arid swath of land south of the Sahara in Africa, have proliferated in recent months: Last week, Islamic militants attacked Bamako, the capital of Mali, for the ...

The three countries all severed military ties with longstanding partners, including France, to form a cooperation pact in September 2023 known as the Alliance of Sahel States.

As the first light pierced through storm clouds, swollen rivers spilled over their banks, sweeping through villages across the Sahel. In countries ranging from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to ...