In recent years, the Sahel region experienced deterioration in the security situation caused by the dwindling presence of the US and France. Capitalising in this shift, Russia has expanded its ...

The growing entanglement of Ukraine in West Africa’s volatile Sahel region came under sharp criticism during a high-level political forum held in Dakar on April 19. Convened by civil society ...

Jnim is one of several jihadist groups operating in West Africa's Sahel region, especially Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, where the military governments are struggling to contain the insurgency.

The Council of Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held an Extraordinary Session in Accra on Wednesday to deliberate on the implications of the withdrawal of Burkina ...

Hundreds of civilians, including at least 12 humanitarian workers, have been killed in recent artillery shelling targeting the El Fasher and Zamzam camps in Sudan’s Darfur region, triggering an ...

The Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Council of Ministers, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, has expressed confidence that the regional bloc will emerge stronger following ...

Moscow is now extending this strategy beyond the Sahel to the Atlantic coast. In Mauritania, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s 2023 visit was part of a broader Russian diplomatic push.

Al Qaeda-linked militants JNIM have killed 70 soldiers in Benin’s deadliest jihadist attack amid expanding Sahel insurgency. An al Qaeda-linked jihadist group, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin ...

The Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate in the Sahel said it killed 70 soldiers in an attack on two military posts in northern Benin. The Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal ...

Several army officers were arrested in the wake of rumours about a planned coup against Junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore, who seized power in 2022.This has created a tense atmosphere amongst ...