LONDON - Africa’s Sahel region is enduring a period of rapid change - and deepening instability. Military juntas in Mali, ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has launched a 5,000-member regional counterterrorism force to tackle the growing influence of jihadist groups, particularly Islamic State’s (IS) ...

President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that his closed-door meeting with Burkina Faso’s Head of State, Captain Ibrahim ...

Russian foreign influence is slowly encroaching on the Sahel’s people, governments, and defensive mechanisms. Though ...

Material grievances—especially high youth unemployment—are a far greater breeding ground for extremism than religious or ...

The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all ...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

Europe witnesses an increase in lone actor terrorism, driven by teenagers radicalized through digital platforms.

Sahel security experts met Governor Zulum in Maiduguri to explore Borno’s successful counter-insurgency strategies for ...

Over half of all terrorism-related deaths in the world occur in the Sahel. That's according to a new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace. The vast region in Africa that lies just ...

The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all terrorism-related deaths", according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).