John Mahama, in his speech, emphasized that this instability poses a threat not only to the Sahel but also to all of West Africa. He noted that neighboring countries such as Ghana, Senegal, Côte ...

On 30 June 2025 in Ouagadougou, representatives from six member countries of the Desert to Power Initiative approved key strategic documents to boost independent power production in the Sahel, at the ...

Authorities said the group was making remote-controlled bombs to carry out attacks in the North African country. In November, a similar terrorist cell was dismantled in the Spanish cities of ...

The Sahel countries will remain a favoured target for Canadian foreign aid, after Ottawa spent more than $1.8-billion on aid to the region over the past six years, Ms. Joly said, ...

After some G5 Sahel countries opposed Mali holding the organisation’s presidency, the country’s transitional government withdrew from the G5 Sahel on 16 May. This was precipitated by an escalation of ...

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

Sahel countries consistently rank [PDF] among the world’s poorest with compounding issues [PDF] of poverty, food insecurity, high unemployment, and the world’s fastest-growing population.

In Africa’s turbulent Sahel region, the Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM jihadist group is expanding its influence by repeated massacres, ...

The Sahel is this semi-arid region just north of where I am in Lagos - in Nigeria - and it covers this belt of countries from Guinea-Bissau - which is along the Atlantic - to Sudan on the Red Sea.

Relations between the two countries soured after a coup last year. Now the United States is scrambling to find new security partners. By Eric Schmitt Reporting from Washington The U.S. military ...