The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) West and Central Africa released a series of reports Saturday revealing a complex trafficking web across the Sahel region of Africa as part of its ...

Africa’s Sahel region has become a hot spot for violent extremism, but the joint force set up in 2014 to combat groups linked to the Islamic State, al-Qaida and others has failed to stop their ...

Misper Apawu Ghanaian soldiers conduct combat drills during Flintlock 2023 at Sogakope beach resort, Ghana, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. As extremist violence in West Africa's Sahel region spreads ...

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 Michel Martin speaks with Andrew Lebovich, a Sahel expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, about the coup in Burkina Faso and other similar ones to hit the region.