Security sector reforms that began well before the country’s two coups still suffer from a lack of effective civil society ...

For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's ...

Lartey, Ghana’s new key liaison to the Alliance of Sahel States, sits down with The Africa Report to discuss how to be a good ...

Russia's goal, according to Constantin Gouvy of the Clingendael Institute, is to replace Western powers such as France as the ...

Beneath the ideological bluster, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is just the latest in a long line of African martial impostors ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa.

China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held ...

An apparent Islamist armed group attacked a civilian convoy escorted by Malian armed forces and allied militias in ...

BAMAKO, Mali — As four years of coups have transformed the Sahel, military juntas have repeatedly targeted journalists and advocates for democracy. When the coup-makers in Mali suspended that ...

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), comprising Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, has officially unveiled its federation flag, ...

A sign for the Alliance of Sahel States is seen in Niamey ... At the vortex of these forces are the countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. Affiliates of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have ...

SALE, Morocco — Moroccan authorities this month arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel, a region south of the Sahara Desert ...