In Africa's turbulent Sahel region, the Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM jihadist group is expanding its influence by repeated massacres, ...

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

Bamako hosted the first Alliance of Sahel States Games. Over 500 athletes from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger competed in ...

BAMAKO, Mali — Armed men attacked a Mali community just over the border from Senegal, Mali’s military said Tuesday — an ...

Africa World Airlines (AWA) has officially launched a new direct flight route between Accra, Ghana and Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, marking a significant step in its expansion into the Sahel ...

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Iranian security services announced the arrest of three officers from Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR), ...

The World Bank guidance outlines a comprehensive framework for integrating Human Capital Accompanying Measures (HCAMs) into ...

Mali has called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to openly denounce what it called Ukraine’s increasingly ...

A UK-funded report reveals that Mali’s social protection system is ill-equipped to handle compounding crises of climate ...

Ghana has reaffirmed its unwavering solidarity with Niger and other members of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), as President John Dramani Mahama extends support to the newly inaugurated Conseil ...

The Sahel countries established a bloc of their own -- the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) -- in September 2023 but have remained dependent on the ports of ECOWAS countries like Benin, ...