Insurgents are expanding from West Africa’s Sahel region toward Atlantic coastal nations such as Ivory Coast, creating new terrorism hot spots and displacing millions.

The Sahel continued as the region where most terrorist violence occurred in 2024, with Burkina Faso again the country with the most killings while Niger shot from 10th to fifth worst in the world ...

Jihadists have intensified their offensives in the Sahel region in recent weeks, carrying out bloody raids in Mali, incursions into major cities in Burkina Faso and inflicting heavy army losses in ...

Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday warned that a rampant Islamist insurgency in West Africa's Sahel is threatening to engulf the entire region.

The number of people killed in Africa’s central Sahel region is surging this year, contradicting the claims by the military rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso and now Niger that they are tackling ...

Insecurity and instability in the Sahel continue to have dire implications for civilians in the region. On October 16, 2023, please join the CSIS Africa Program and the E.U. Delegation to the U.S. for ...

The Sahel region has become a focal point of deepening polarization between pro-Western “moderate” states and nations seeking independence from neo-colonial influence, relying instead on non ...

As Africa’s Sahel region has replaced the Middle East as the epicenter of jihadism, young men are flocking to the cause. They don’t always like what they find.

U.S. military general warns of growing terror threats from Africa's Sahel region, with groups like Al-Qaeda expanding and potentially targeting the U.S.

The U.S. military’s top general in Africa said terrorist factions in the Sahel region have increased their presence so much in the past three years that they soon may be able to launch attacks ...

Spain will urge the European Union’s top diplomat to strengthen the bloc’s engagement with Africa’s Sahel region as part of a broader defense review, according to a person familiar with the ...

Russia has capitalized on the deteriorating relations between the West and coup-affected Sahel nations in West Africa to send fighters and assert its influence.