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From economic troubles and political upheavals, to ethnic violence, corruption and more, countries across Africa have navigated no shortage of challenges. While major media outlets on the continent ...

The recent spread of terrorism and violent extremism, uncontrolled transnational organized crime and illicit cross-border trafficking in drugs, arms and people, as well as lack of good governance and ...

Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity and food ...

Since late 2025, a vast ecosystem of fake social media accounts has been targeting countries in the Alliance of Sahel States and their junta leaders. RFI's Fact-Checking Unit and France 24's Observers ...

Burkina Faso's President Captain Ibrahim Traoré, second left, walks alongside Mali's President General Assimi Goïta during the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) second summit on security and development ...

At first glance, the creation in 2014 of the G5 Sahel, an international organisation set up to deal with conflict management in the Sahel, seemed unlikely. Some analysts were already describing a ...

The brazen attack on the international airport and nearby military airbase in Niamey, Niger’s capital, came overnight between January 28 and 29. Balls of orange fire flew across the sky as the ...

The Sahel G5 regional bloc plan to establish a regional airline named Air Sahel. The member states of Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad will each contribute two aviation experts to a ...