The Latest Breaking News from Sahel

The United States army has completed its withdrawal from Niger after 11 years of military cooperation with the west African country.

In September, amid the ongoing war in Sudan, reports began to surface of the looting of the Sudan National Museum in the capital, Khartoum. The museum is internationally celebrated for the breadth of its collection. It illustrates powerful and unique African kingdoms from the ancient and medieval past in a…

The Nigerian army has spoken of attacks on the Niger-Nigeria border in 2024 as being carried out by a new terrorist group.

An unlikely friendship is budding between Budapest and N’Djamena with the goal of stemming migration to Europe.

In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate change is making the lives and livelihoods of the local Fulani communities increasingly vulnerable. Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal (known as the Ferlo), the pastoral population walks over dry, dusty…

A media freedom group says local journalists in the African Sahel are facing increased security risks as extremist attacks and military coups have shaken the region in recent years

Extremist attacks in the Sahel have been increasing

U.S. troops complete withdrawal from Niger, impacting counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel region. Niger seeks security assistance from Russia after expel...

Washington is now seeking a Plan B after troops were ejected from sprawling, expensive bases in Niger.

Hungary has bucked a trend by Western nations to withdraw from the Sahel region of Africa where Russia has increased its presence, and plans to deploy soldiers to Chad, whose leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno is in Budapest for talks.

With half the country not under government control, al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM is increasingly targeting civilians.