Visit the Sahel situation page on Global Focus for more statistics. *The Sahel region includes the countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. “I was so frightened. The whole family – including my ...

Violence is tearing Mali and the Sahel apart. But who are the armed groups behind the bloodshed? Where are international actors stationed in the region? And what motivates them all? This project maps ...

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 ...

The SASPP Annual Report 2024 covers the SASPP Results Framework and highlights key country and regional achievements, as well as future plans to support the strengthening of adaptive social protection ...

Our new report, Changing climate, changing realities: migration in the Sahel, looks at ways climate change is affecting people’s lives, with case studies from Mali and Sudan. In the Sahel region, ...

Extremist attacks in Sahel, an arid swath of land south of the Sahara in Africa, have proliferated in recent months: Last week, Islamic militants attacked Bamako, the capital of Mali, for the ...

Across the Sahel and Lake Chad region, heavy floods have exacerbated existing humanitarian crises in countries such as Cameroon, Mali, and Niger. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is urgently ...

The three have since joined forces under the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) established in September 2023. Russia has moved swiftly to fill the gap, deploying hundreds of Wagner Group fighters ...

Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye of Senegal slammed the Security council for its inertia regarding the deaths and destabilization that have befallen the Sahel. The president was addressing Wednesday ...

A former military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd) has linked the heightening insecurity in the Sahel region to poverty, unemployment and weak governance. Abdulsalami spoke at the ...

Burkina Faso and Niger have followed Mali in announcing they are to withdraw from an international force known as the G5 that was set up to fight Islamists in the Sahel region. All three countries ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Extremist attacks in Sahel, an arid swath of land south of the Sahara in Africa, have proliferated in recent months: Last week, Islamic militants attacked Bamako ...