After two decades, and many failed counterterrorism efforts, the Trump administration is considering shuttering U.S. Africa ...

The Russian paramilitary group Wagner has left Mali and its units there have been taken over by the Moscow-run Africa Corps, ...

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

Gen. Michael Langley highlights the threat of African terror groups expanding, with Al-Qaeda factions growing and aiming to ...

Wagner yesterday or Africa Corps today, our point of contact remains the same, it is the ... Kremlin,' a Malian security ...

The Russia-backed Wagner Group says it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists ...

Michael Langley, the four-star Marine General who leads U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), said the Sahel region of the continent is now the "flashpoint of prolonged conflict and growing instability.

The Sahel States Alliance launches a bank to boost regional economy. In Nigeria, tech drives recovery despite falling ...

North Africa and the Middle East candidates. The journey crosses Sahel and Sahara to the Algerian and Moroccan coasts. An extremely dangerous route, as many lose, among other things, their own ...

The west Africa-Sahel region has seen a proliferation of militant Islamist groups since the 1990s. One of the most vicious groups operating in the region is Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin ...

Egodi Uchendu receives funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. She has also received funding from TETFund, Nigeria, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research ...