Washington Post journalists faced numerous challenges in reporting from the Sahel region of Africa, including hostility from ...

When healthcare workers in central Mali travel to vaccinate children against measles, they have to negotiate with the ...

Within ECOWAS, there’s an institution known as the Community Court of Justice. Since 2005, this Court has had jurisdiction to hear human rights cases brought by citizens of member states. People don’t ...

An Islamist insurgency in the Sahel region, and fighting on Ghana’s northern border with Burkina Faso, may both spread to ...

A joint force of 5,000 troops from military-led neighbours Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali will soon deploy in their troubled central Sahel region, Niger's defence chief said on state television.

EU is interested in working with Türkiye and countries of the region in order to forge broad international coalition that can ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having served notice a year ago, raising concerns over access to justice for the ...

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in its humanitarian overview of the Sahel, “as of 1st December 2024, 5.6 million people in the region ...

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) withdraws from ECOWAS and continues initiatives for independence, regional integration, and defensive cooperation. Last week, the Foreign Ministers of Burkina Faso, ...

Cognizant of the region's potential, UNDP is implementing the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS), aiming to provide clean, affordable energy to over 150 million people by 2025.

The attackers struck near the village of Kobe, around 30 km (19 miles) from Gao in a region where affiliates of Islamic State ...

Junta-Led Sahel States Ready Joint Force of 5,000 Troops ... Islamic State has worsened since the coups. Around 2.6 million people were displaced within the region as of end-December, according ...