For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. The ISSP follows the hard line of ...

An ambitious and bold project looks to help desertification in Africa and to combat African nations from being swallowed up ...

As long as terrorist groups exploit illicit trade networks, the risk of their expansion into North Africa and Europe remains ...

This battle can be won': desert expert reveals how China's technology, funding and strategies aid ambitious environmental ...

The vast region in Africa that lies just south of the Sahara Desert and encompasses 10 ... AKINWOTU: Yes. The Sahel is this semi-arid region just north of where I am in Lagos - in Nigeria ...

Religious extremists, military officers and Russian mercenaries have all trained their ambitions on this broad belt of Africa known as the Sahel, wedged between the Sahara to the north and the ...

SALE, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan authorities this month arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel, a region south of the Sahara Desert, officials ...

Moroccan authorities have dismantled a terrorist cell planning attacks for the Islamic State in the Sahel. This highlights rising extremist ambitions in the region. The suspects, arrested across ...

Bayanan hoto, . Yankin da ke kudu da hamadar Sahara, Sahel ya fara ne tun daga yammacin gaɓar ruwan Afirka zuwa gabashinta. Yadda GTI ya siffanta yankin ya ƙunshi wasu yankuna a ƙasashe 10 ...

The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all ...

Rabat - Saudi Arabia has reiterated its strong support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and its sovereignty over Western ...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.