The Tuareg people are among the indigenous Berber groups ... Faso and Niger - with which it has formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). The AES announced in January 2024 that its countries ...

He occupies a position at the centre of different movements – the formal representative and leader of the Imghad Tuareg community, a general in the Malian army, and the leader of one of northern ...

The foreign ministry in Madrid confirmed on Wednesday that the man had been freed with the participation of Spanish diplomatic and intelligence services.

Algeria and Mali share a vast 1,300-kilometre (800-mile) desert border in the Sahel region of North Africa which is difficult to monitor. The region plays host to Tuareg rebel groups and Al-Qaeda ...

Eventually Mdou’s music found its way to Christopher Kirkley, founder of the Sahel Sounds label ... address the plight of the Tuareg people and the postcolonial struggles of Niger with bracing ...

The number of people on the brink of starvation across the Sahel has increased almost tenfold over the past three years and displacement by almost 400 percent as the region stares down a ...

The Sahel is home to many Islamist groups, some aligned with al-Qaeda. More than 3,000 French troops and 12,000 UN troops have been engaged in Mali since 2013, when Islamist and Tuareg militants ...

The HCUA is commanded by the Ifoghas Tuareg leader Alghabass Ag Intallah, who was a senior member of Ansar al-Din before briefly founding the Mouvement Islamique de l’Azawad and then the HCUA in May ...

Fighters for the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) pose for a picture in northern Mali on 28 August, 2022.

Identified as Joaquin Navarro, the Spaniard had been on a trip last week when he was kidnapped "by an armed group made up of five people ... in the Sahel region of North Africa which is difficult to ...