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

Security sector reforms that began well before the country’s two coups still suffer from a lack of effective civil society ...

Russia's goal, according to Constantin Gouvy of the Clingendael Institute, is to replace Western powers such as France as the ...

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

Lartey, Ghana’s new key liaison to the Alliance of Sahel States, sits down with The Africa Report to discuss how to be a good ...

Beneath the ideological bluster, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is just the latest in a long line of African martial impostors ...

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.

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

An apparent Islamist armed group attacked a civilian convoy escorted by Malian armed forces and allied militias in ...

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), comprising Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, has officially unveiled its federation flag, ...

A sign for the Alliance of Sahel States is seen in Niamey ... At the vortex of these forces are the countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. Affiliates of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have ...

Islam has been the dominant religion in the Sahel for centuries ... in Niger’s far west near its porous borders with Mali and Burkina Faso, was peaceful; its tree-lined streets would come ...