At home, Togo has prioritized national security by increasing its defense budget from 8.7 percent of total government ...

Souleymane Ag Bakawa, one of the leaders of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, headed a group infamous for terrorizing citizens in the city of Menaka - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The emergency is not lost on Philippe Dudouit, a 42-year-old Swiss photojournalist who has lived among diverse groups of people in the rural Sahara-Sahel off and on since 2008. Indeed, he has ...

Heightened fears of trouble in the Sahara-Sahel band range from another round of Tuareg rebellion and the prospect of al Qaeda's local factions securing better weapons to a spike in banditry and ...

In 2019, the US began conducting drone strikes and aerial surveillance across the Sahel and the Sahara Desert from its Air Base 201 outside Agadez (Niger) - the largest construction effort in US ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — Jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin, according to a new report ...

An escalation in the number of conflicts across the Sahara and the Sahel in Africa is driving down numbers of the region’s wildlife, a new study finds. The authors found that the number of ...

Every day, millions of microorganisms reach Spain from the Sahara Desert and the Sahel region -- by flying. Louis Pasteur demonstrated back in 1861 that germs can move through the air, but it was ...

Armed conflicts in Sahara and Sahel endangering wildlife in the region. University of Granada. Journal Conservation Letters DOI 10.1111/conl.12446 ...

Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara Through May 10 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan; 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org . Holland Cotter is the co-chief art critic.