Based on video analysis, media reports, and local sources, most victims of the massacre in Solenzo appear to be ethnic Fulani ...

In separate communications, the military governments in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso announced their withdrawals from the ...

For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching ... director of the Timbuktu Institute in Dakar. "While the Islamic State has remained in a form ...

By Spoorthy Raman The Great Green Wall in the Sahel, a mosaic of forests, farmlands and grasslands dotting the arid fringes of Sahara, was launched by the African Union in 2007 to fight ...

France set up a joint commission with Senegal last month to organize the withdrawal, and the French army recently announced it had dismissed 162 Senegalese who worked on military bases in Dakar.

The United Nations World Food Programme said on Friday it would halt food and nutrition assistance to more than 2 million ...

Financial investigations and capacity-building of investigation and prosecution services ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A mission by a West African regional ... It was deployed from Feb. 21 to Feb. 28 together with the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel to help broker a consensus ...

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As French-speaking countries celebrate International Francophone Day, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have this week announced ...

France has handed control of two military facilities to Senegal, beginning the formal process of withdrawing its military presence from the West African country amid its waning influence in the region ...