A photojournalist journeys to the Sahara-Sahel desert of remote northern Africa to catalogue the state of emergency on the ground ...

The G5 Sahel region: a Desert Flower? Fundamental development interventions, not militarised approaches, can improve the region’s dire long-term prospects.

For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. The ISSP follows the hard line ...

In the past decade, five journalists have been killed and six have gone missing in the Sahel, a vast, semiarid region of western and north-central Africa that stretches along the Sahara desert's ...

Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal (known as the Ferlo), the pastoral population walks over dry, dusty ground with their livestock in search of grazing areas and working borehole ...

As Tuareg rock group Etran de l’Aïr release their new album, we take a look at their record label, the US-based Sahel Sounds – set up after a road trip around the region by its American founder.

Since then, the security situation in Africa’s Sahel region has continually worsened. Today, the vast area stretching from Mauritania to Sudan has become a no man's land for journalists, a black ...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Tuareg singer-songwriter and guitarist Bombino about his new album Sahel, and his nomadic people's struggles and joys.

Africa's Sahel region accounts for more than half of terror-related killings, a new reports says.

Out of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, three of the Sahel countries hit hardest by jihadi violence, Niger was the only one to see an improvement in its security, with attacks on civilians decreasing ...

The G5 Sahel heads of State, at a Summit in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, last week, gave strong support to Desert to Power, an African Development Bank- (AfDB-) led initiative. The summit ...