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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The EU is closely monitoring developments in the Sahel as it reinforces Ghana’s security to help maintain stability in West Africa, according to EU Ambassador to Ghana Irchad Razaaly. The EU’s latest ...

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 ...

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 ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has today launched a US$186 million appeal to mainly provide lifesaving protection and assistance to refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and host ...

Torrential rains during the Sahel’s rainy season (July to September) caused widespread flooding, displacing millions and submerging tens of thousands of hectares of cropland across Burkina Faso, Chad, ...

Sudan’s ongoing humanitarian crisis after more than a year of civil war shows few signs of abating. And amid the fighting, a significant and troubling development looks set to complicate the conflict ...

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).