France officially ended its decades-long military presence in Chad, its last stronghold in the West African region. The shift ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way to interview one of the group's leaders in northern Mali ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

The Sahel is one of the most challenged regions in the world, facing devastating multidimensional crises like famine, drought, insecurity, and extremism. The area, spanning from Senegal to Eritrea and ...

The Great Green Wall is a monumental reforestation effort designed to fight desertification in Africa's Sahel region. Stretching over a dozen countries, this initiative aims to restore 100 million ...

It was sparked by Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The war unfolded in two key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which focused on troop deployment and defending Saudi Arabia, and Operation ...

Macron also dismissed the notion that French troops had been expelled from the Sahel, an area that sits just below the Sahara Desert, as Paris’ influence on its former colonies wanes.

With his five-star army general's cap on his head and wraparound sunglasses, Assimi Goita strolled past crushers, conveyor belts and several tons of rubble from a whitish rock containing one of ...

The 2025 Global Persecution Index from International Christian Concern paints a sobering picture of Christian persecution across Africa’s Sahel region. Countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, ...

The Great Green Wall is a project first adopted by the African Union in 2007, initially conceived as a way to combat desertification in the Sahel region and slow the expansion of the Sahara.

France’s military presence in Africa will soon be limited to troops in Djibouti and Gabon — a far cry from its many troops that were stationed in the Sahel fighting jihadists just three years ago.