By Jessica Donati and Ange Aboa DAKAR/ABIDJAN, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast wants the Trump administration to station U.S.

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president ...

West Africa's cattle herders are being stripped of their animals by extremist-linked armed groups as the deadly conflict in ...

Ivory Coast seeks U.S. military presence to combat Al Qaeda-allied jihadists in the Sahel, proposing U.S. spy planes for ...

Guinea-Bissau takeover is the latest in the Sahel region, which has quietly become global epicentre of terrorism ...

Overall, Sub-Saharan Africa’s average risk score now stands at 47.46, up from 45.63 the previous year. ACIRI concludes that ...

Ivory Coast seeks assistance from the Trump administration to deploy U.S. spy planes in its northern region for operations ...

ABUJA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - ‌States ​in Africa's Sahel ‌region have accused Nigeria of violating ​their airspace, saying one of its military transport ‍planes landed in Burkina ​Faso on Monday without ...

In Mali, General Assimi Goïta, who took power in a 2020 coup, now plans to remain in power through at least the end of this decade, as do his counterparts in neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger. As ...

The European Union’s Special Representative to the Sahel is urging coastal West African States including Ghana to tackle what ...

President John Mahama has met with the European Union Special Representative for the Sahel, João Cravinho, at the Presidency ...

The emergency landing of a Nigerian military plane in western Burkina Faso has reignited tensions between Abuja and the ...