Musa was asleep in the village of Dusuman in northeast Nigeria when he was awoken by a sharp burst of gunfire and Boko Haram ...

Djiby Sow Senior Researcher, ISS Regional Office for West Africa and the Sahel Fahiraman Rodrigue Koné Project Manager, Sahel ...

Launched on Wednesday, the 2025 edition showed that conflict deaths in the Sahel reached their highest level since the inception of the GTI, surpassing 25,000 for the first time in 2024, of which ...

pointing to conflict as "the primary driver of terrorism". The Sahel is sometimes referred to as the "coup belt" of Africa. Since 2020 there have been six successful coups in the region as defined ...

BAMAKO, Mali — Algeria said Tuesday it shot down a military drone near the country's border with Mali in the first incident ...

Tuggar highlighted ongoing conflicts in Sudan, eastern Congo, and the Sahel, where the United Nations and other international bodies have often been ineffective in providing lasting solutions.

The two victims who were members of the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA), were slain in the country’s northeast, ...

ASISS leaders and security experts explored strategies for implementing the model across the Sahel region, which has long been plagued by terrorism and armed conflicts. The delegation was led by ...

After years of delays due to insufficient funding and prevailing conflicts, the Great Green Wall in the Sahel, aimed at preventing desertification, gained momentum with an accelerator program ...

A research project by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has concluded that while there is no direct link between climate change and terrorism in the Sahel, disrupted agricultural production ...