The Latest Breaking News from Sahel

A wave of African countries is pushing the former coloniser back, but Senegal is the only one without military leaders.

For over six decades, Chad was a crucial ally to French and US forces in their counter-insurgency operations in the Sahel. But both lost influence because of repeated mistakes.

In September, amid the ongoing war in Sudan, reports began to surface of the looting of the Sudan National Museum in the capital, Khartoum. The museum is internationally celebrated for the breadth of its collection. It illustrates powerful and unique African kingdoms from the ancient and medieval past in a…

The Nigerian army has spoken of attacks on the Niger-Nigeria border in 2024 as being carried out by a new terrorist group.

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…

A media freedom group says local journalists in the African Sahel are facing increased security risks as extremist attacks and military coups have shaken the region in recent years

Extremist attacks in the Sahel have been increasing

U.S. troops complete withdrawal from Niger, impacting counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel region. Niger seeks security assistance from Russia after expel...