The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

Network has appealed to ECOWAS and the Alliance of Sahelian States, to enhance negotiations and dialogue in the interest of regional co-operation, peace and security.

China stands a good chance of taking advantage of the dwindling western presence in the Sahel region of west Africa.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is currently pained by the establishment of the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES: Alliance of Sahel States, ASS).

With France fast losing its influence in west Africa's Sahel region and an unpredictable US president in power, will China fill the vacuum?

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has engaged his Ivorian counterpart, Léon Kacou Houadja Adom, in a collaborative ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the ...

At least 10 soldiers were killed by armed assailants in an ambush in western Nigeria, near Burkina Faso's border. The attack ...

The same month, militants of an Islamic State group affiliate — known as Islamic State Sahel Province — likely shot and killed 21 passengers on a bus in the Arboudji village, near the border with ...