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 ...

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

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 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 ...