Ba grew up helping her parents clear their fields, sow seeds, harvest crops and gather fodder to feed their livestock. Now she heads a local women's cooperative. Farming has been a lifeline in the ...

But even as ties have grown in recent years, Washington’s foreign policy establishment still considers Africa to be a ...

Analysis - For the past 10 to 15 years, in the Sahel, security has yet to improve. On the contrary, it has become entrenched and has worsened. Fueled by infrastructures destructions and populations ...

Thousands from across the junta-led countries in Africa’s Sahel region were gathering this week in the Nigerien capital of ...

Chad is the latest country in the troubled Sahel region to break with its former colonial power, a move that will likely ...

Chad's decision to end military cooperation with former colonial power France is the latest downgrade of waning French ...

The decision by Chad is another blow to what remained of France’s military influence in the troubled stretch of countries ...

Despite the fracture within Ecowas and animosity with western partners, regional and international collaboration is needed to ...

Holmgren and other Western security officials and analysts have drawn comparisons between how ISIS groups have amassed territory in the Sahel region of Africa with the group’s prominent rise in ...

The government of Chad on Thursday abruptly ended its defence cooperation pact with France, a surprise move that caught French officials on the hop while Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, in ...

Chad's decision to end military cooperation with former colonial power France is the latest downgrade of waning French influence in the Sahel region. Chad has been a key ...

Chad has announced the termination of its defence cooperation agreement with France, aiming to assert sovereignty. The move follows Chad's growing ties with Russia and mirrors shifts in military ...