The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and ...

France has handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities. The move on Thursday came two months after the ...

French forces have been ousted in recent years from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso following years of fighting ... the vast expanse below the Sahara desert. In a statement on Thursday, Chad's ...

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

Macron also rejected the suggestion that French troops had been expelled from the Sahel amid poor relations with local leadership, an area below the Sahara Desert, telling the conference ...

NIAMEY, Jan 12 (Reuters) - An Austrian woman was kidnapped in the desert town of Agadez in central ... Niger, like its neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso, is battling groups linked to al Qaeda ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

The head pastor of Alabaster International Ministries, Prophet Kofi Oduro, has lambasted critics of Burkina Faso’s leader, Ibrahim Traoré who attended President John Dramani Mahama’s ...