Visit the Sahel situation page on Global Focus for more statistics. *The Sahel region includes the countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. “I was so frightened. The whole family – including my ...

Since the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria and the emergence of Islamist-Salafist groups in northern Mali in 2013, the Sahel has increasingly been caught in the ma ...

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

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.

The European Union has donated €50m worth of non-lethal military equipment to Ghana to bolster its security forces as ...

The security situation in the Sahel region has worsened since the juntas took power, analysts say, with a record number of ...

The new African Union (AU) leadership joins the Commission at a critical time where AU’s effectiveness in preventing, ...

As The Washington Post’s West Africa bureau chief based in Senegal, I’ve reported from nine countries across the Sahel over the past 2½ years. I’ve covered three coups, the arrival of ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says its mediation team has left Guinea-Bissau after President Umaro ...

Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, says Nigeria’s security situation cannot be divorced from happenings around the world due to ...