Across the northern reaches of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Togo, there is relative peace compared to the dire situation in…
Browsing: Sahel
Sudan’s 2-year-old war began as a fight for supremacy between the leaders of the national Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced plans to activate its standby force as terrorism from Burkina…
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…