Morocco stopped 78,685 migrants from trying to reach the European Union in 2024, a 4.6% increase from the previous year, the Interior Ministry told Reuters on Thursday. Most of the migrants—58%—came ...

Morocco stopped 78,685 migrants from illegally crossing into European Union territory in 2024, up 4.6% from a year earlier, ...

Our new report, Changing climate, changing realities: migration in the Sahel, looks at ways climate change is affecting people’s lives, with case studies from Mali and Sudan. In the Sahel region, ...

The Sahel, a semiarid region in Africa south of the Sahara Desert, has long been a focal point and an environmental issue .

Kosseï camp in the capital N'Djamena was also the last of its bases in the Sahel, which were themselves a legacy of France's domination of the region as the main colonial power there. On Friday ...

Morocco prevented 78,685 migrants from illegal crossing into the EU, marking a 4.6% increase from the previous year. The majority hailed from West Africa, driven by conflict, unemployment, and climate ...

PARIS, Jan 6 (Reuters) - France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was still waiting for Africa's Sahel states to thank Paris for stopping them falling into the hands of militants and ...

Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali are due to withdraw officially from the grouping of West African states on 28 January.

The European Union's border agency Frontex says that irregular migration into the European Union fell sharply in 2024 ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s transitional president, has become the first recipient of the new Alliance of Sahel ...