Military rulers in west Africa's Sahel region may well have celebrated had a recent coup attempt in Benin resulted in another ...

West Africa's cattle herders are being stripped of their animals by extremist-linked armed groups as the deadly conflict in ...

What is life like for the women living in the central Sahel, in areas controlled by the jihadist JNIM group? British ...

The withdrawal of French forces and the cooling of U.S. military cooperation produced a tangible security vacuum, ...

Guinea-Bissau takeover is the latest in the Sahel region, which has quietly become global epicentre of terrorism ...

Analysis - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has strong diplomatic relations with the Sahel, also based on the precious metal: ...

Fitch Solutions has sounded a cautionary note over Ghana rsquo;s medium term economic prospects, warning that the country ...

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president ...

Ivory Coast seeks U.S. military presence to combat Al Qaeda-allied jihadists in the Sahel, proposing U.S. spy planes for ...

The October kidnapping by suspected jihadists of an American pilot working for an evangelical Christian missionary agency in ...

Egypt’s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, voiced Cairo’s support for Mali’s fight against armed groups in the Sahel, as ...

Ivory Coast wants the Trump administration to station U.S. spy planes in the country’s north to carry out cross-border operations targeting Al Qaeda-allied jihadists wreaking havoc across the Sahel, ...