The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced plans to activate its standby force as terrorism from Burkina…
Browsing: Sahel
The Islamic State group (IS) aims to expand its terrorism beyond the Sahel region and into North Africa and West…
Experts are alarmed at growing violence in the Sahel and the possibility of extremist groups consolidating gains to form a…
ADF STAFF Three vast, connected national parks in West Africa — the W, Arly and Pendjari — are known as…
Faced with a rising tide of external threats in the north, Benin has spent much of the past eight years…
Nigeria’s National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) is reviewing its strategy as terror organizations launch fresh attacks. The NCTC, the Office of…
The Islamic State group’s two affiliates in West Africa rely on both modern cryptocurrency and hawala, a traditional person-to-person exchange,…
Moroccan authorities have arrested more than a dozen Islamic State operatives, disrupting an attempt by extremists based in the Sahel…
Due mainly to a decline in al-Shabaab-related deaths in Somalia, there were fewer fatalities related to militant Islamist violence on…
As the Sahel’s three junta-led governments increasingly turn inward, their absence from regional organizations is hampering counterterrorism efforts across West…