Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way to interview one of the group's leaders in northern Mali ...

French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

These developments have led some analysts to believe Russia’s influence and ability to project power in the Sahel is waning, ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

France has handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities. The move on Thursday came two months after the ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have officially left West Africa’s main political and trade group ECOWAS after more than a year ...

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried ...

to France in Francophone Africa,” he said. Lyammouri said he doesn’t think the Sahel will be a priority for this new administration but if that was to be, what happened in Niger should be a ...

keep a positive image toward the U.S. and avoid what is currently happening, for example, to France in Francophone Africa," he said. Lyammouri said he doesn't think the Sahel will be a priority ...