Ochieng said IS Sahel’s strategy appears increasingly focused on exploiting security gaps beyond their core Sahelian ...
Again, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have boycotted the ECOWAS Defence Chiefs meeting, continuing their disengagement from ...
International Atomic energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has been to Niger this week for high-level meetings with Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine and other senior officials to ...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has launched a 5,000-member regional counterterrorism force to tackle the growing influence of jihadist groups, particularly Islamic State’s (IS) ...
Terrorism in the Sahel has increased significantly, with deaths rising nearly tenfold since 2019, according to the Global ...
On Thursday Grossi met Niger's junta-appointed Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, along with the mining, foreign and energy ministers to explore "deepening cooperation". "Nuclear science and ...
President John Dramani Mahama has called for stronger security and trade relations between Ghana and Niger following ...
The urgency of the Sahel crisis is no longer theoretical. In January 2024, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced their withdrawal from ECOWAS, forming the Alliance of Sahel States (AES ...
Russian foreign influence is slowly encroaching on the Sahel’s people, governments, and defensive mechanisms. Though ...
LONDON - Africa’s Sahel region is enduring a period of rapid change - and deepening instability. Military juntas in Mali, ...
The Sahel stretches from the west coast of Africa eastwards across the continent. The GTI's definition of the region includes parts of 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Cameroon ...
President John Dramani Mahama has engaged in high-level discussions with General Abdourahamane Tchiani, President of the ...