Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa.

Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have introduced a new federation flag as part of their efforts to strengthen regional ...

The European Union has donated €50m worth of non-lethal military equipment to Ghana to bolster its security forces as ...

Mali is undergoing a broader digital transformation drive with the government working to digitize all public services within ...

The Nation Newspaper Sahel States’ withdrawal from ECOWAS placed increased burden on Nigerian military, says CAS ...

The Chinese Embassy in Mali has reportedly refused to recognize passports issued by the Alliance of Sahel States, AES, a ...

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

By Steven KefasThe Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching across West Africa, has long been a crucible of geopolitical competition. For decades, the region’s security architecture was shaped by Wes ...

Moroccan authorities have arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel ...

China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held ...

Morocco's counterterrorism agency said on Monday it had foiled attacks planned by the so-called Islamic State group (IS) in the Sahel region, south of the Sahara Desert. The discovery of the 12-member ...