For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso this week, Niger’s ruling military junta said. An ...

DAKAR, Senegal — For a foreign correspondent ... an al-Qaida’s affiliate in the Sahel. Or so he thought. En route to the interview in Gao, northern Mali, in April 2021, Dubois, a correspondent ...

Ivory Coast became the latest African nation to expel French troops, taking control of the last remaining French military ...

Many historic buildings in Senegal's ever-expanding capital are becoming victims either to the march of modernisation or the ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region against rising ...

Could deteriorating diplomatic ties between France and the Sahel nations have consequences for the common currency used by ...

As The Washington Post’s West Africa bureau chief based in Senegal, I’ve reported from nine countries across the Sahel over the past 2½ years. I’ve covered three coups, the arrival of ...

The cost of a daily nutritious diet in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is 110% higher than the west African region’s daily ...