The European Union has donated €50m worth of non-lethal military equipment to Ghana to bolster its security forces as ...

For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's ...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has raised concerns over the increasing influence of Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist groups in ...

Russia's goal, according to Constantin Gouvy of the Clingendael Institute, is to replace Western powers such as France as the ...

China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held ...

LONDON – Africa’s Sahel region is enduring a period of rapid change – and deepening instability. Military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger – now known as the Central Sahel – have rejected ...

Cote d'Ivoire has become the latest country to expel French troops, following a similar departure from Chad in January. With ...

Moroccan authorities have dismantled a terrorist cell planning attacks for the Islamic State in the Sahel. This highlights ...

The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) held a press conference today at its Sale headquarters providing details ...

SALE, Morocco — Moroccan authorities this month arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel, a region south of the Sahara Desert ...

NIAMEY, Niger — As Islamist extremist groups have wrested large swaths of territory from government control in the Sahel, young men have streamed into their ranks, often compelled more by ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — As Islamist extremist groups have advanced in the past few years, often overpowering government forces in the Sahel, tens of thousands of civilians have taken up arms ...