Violence, displacement and hunger are deepening across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger as the UN warns the Central Sahel crisis ...

Mali and Nigeria, two of the countries in the Sahel region of west Africa, are separated by approximately 1,000 kilometres, with the Niger Republic between them. They differ in population size and ...

The Sahel region of Africa has become one of the world’s most dangerous and unstable security zones. Stretching across states ...

Learn how conflict and climate change interact to form a compounded crisis in the Central Sahel, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions. Despite making up just 0.9% of the global population, the ...

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The Mary Dinah Foundation (MDF) has brought the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel region to the forefront of policy discussions in the United Kingdom, hosting a photography exhibition at the UK ...

On May 14, 2026, Mali’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Abdoulaye Diop, held a significant informal consultation with the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU PSC).

BAMAKO – The top protection official of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commended Mali and its neighbours for keeping their borders open to people fleeing danger, and for upholding asylum principles in ...

The UN Security Council travels to Mali and Burkina Faso this week for an up-close look at the worrisome Sahel region, where a jihadist insurgency is showing no signs of weakening and is driving mass ...

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned about the fast-growing humanitarian crisis in the Sahel Region. In the Central Sahel countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, over 3.3 ...

Danger is not looming in the Sahel and the West African region. It is not news that it is intractable now. The real fear is that it may rise to a catastrophic dimension such that the world may ...