Togo has not ruled out joining a Sahel defence pact forged by the military-led governments of Burkina Faso, Mail and Niger, the country's foreign minister said Thursday.

The Islamic State in Sub-Saharan Africa (EIGS) has claimed responsibility for a deadly ambush that left 17 soldiers and six ...

The Defence Headquarters raised alarm over the increasing influx of foreign fighters from Sahel into terrorist groups within ...

Sahel juntas -- Mali’s Assimi Goita, Niger’s Abdourahamane Tiani and Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore -- are tightening controls ...

Paul Nantulya, a China analyst at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, noted that China has recently become ...

How should the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) deal with the Sahel juntas, as they plan to break away from ...

Before you hop on that camel trek, take time to understand the nomadic cultures of the Sahel. These communities hold a deep ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was still waiting for Africa's Sahel states to thank Paris for stopping ...

Following the withdrawal of France's Operation Barkhane, Algeria is being challenged on its southern borders by Sahelian ...

A combination of population explosion, failure of governance and endemic poverty creates a perfect breeding ground for a ...

Ghana's president and Mali's junta-appointed prime minister on Thursday committed to strengthening relations in the face of rising jihadist violence and instability across west Africa.