The Latest Breaking News from Sahel

An unlikely friendship is budding between Budapest and N’Djamena with the goal of stemming migration to Europe.

In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate change is making the lives and livelihoods of the local Fulani communities increasingly vulnerable. Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal (known as the Ferlo), the pastoral population walks over dry, dusty…

Hungary has bucked a trend by Western nations to withdraw from the Sahel region of Africa where Russia has increased its presence, and plans to deploy soldiers to Chad, whose leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno is in Budapest for talks.

With half the country not under government control, al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM is increasingly targeting civilians.

Denmark said Monday it was shutting its embassies in Mali and Burkina Faso as part of its new Africa strategy, as military coups have "severely limited the scope for action in the Sahel region". However, the Scandinavian country said it would open embassies in Senegal, Tunisia and Rwanda.

The military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have written to the United Nations Security Council to denounce what they said was Ukraine's support for rebel groups in West Africa's Sahel region, according to Mali's foreign ministry.

The use of drones in the Sahel, a region of Africa that has been plagued by violence driven by jihadist insurgency for much of the past decade, has become a real problem. In April, for example, Al Qaeda’s affiliate in the Sahel, Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wa al Muslimeen, reportedly…

The U.S. hands over its last military base in Niger, impacting counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel region.

The United States is winding down its military operations in Niger ahead of a mid-September deadline agreed with the country’s ruling military junta.