France officially ended its decades-long military presence in Chad, its last stronghold in the West African region. The shift ...

President Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday welcomed the "definitive and complete departure" of French forces from Chad which ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way to interview one of the group's leaders in northern Mali ...

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

Three junta-ruled countries in Africa's Sahel region will join forces to create a 5,000-strong unit to fight the jihadist violence that has for years plagued the nations, officials said on Tuesday.

The Sahel is one of the most challenged regions in the world, facing devastating multidimensional crises like famine, drought, insecurity, and extremism. The area, spanning from Senegal to Eritrea and ...

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The Great Green Wall is a monumental reforestation effort designed to fight desertification in Africa's Sahel region. Stretching over a dozen countries, this initiative aims to restore 100 million ...

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This established what is now known as the Alliance of Sahel States or Alliance des États du Sahel (AES). In a joint statement released in January 2024, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger outlined ...

Macron also dismissed the notion that French troops had been expelled from the Sahel, an area that sits just below the Sahara Desert, as Paris’ influence on its former colonies wanes.