By Jessica Donati and Ange Aboa DAKAR/ABIDJAN, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast wants the Trump administration to station U.S.

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president ...

West Africa's cattle herders are being stripped of their animals by extremist-linked armed groups as the deadly conflict in ...

Ivory Coast seeks U.S. military presence to combat Al Qaeda-allied jihadists in the Sahel, proposing U.S. spy planes for ...

Overall, Sub-Saharan Africa’s average risk score now stands at 47.46, up from 45.63 the previous year. ACIRI concludes that ...

Ivory Coast seeks assistance from the Trump administration to deploy U.S. spy planes in its northern region for operations ...

Guinea-Bissau takeover is the latest in the Sahel region, which has quietly become global epicentre of terrorism ...

The European Union’s Special Representative to the Sahel is urging coastal West African States including Ghana to tackle what ...

Following a severe drought in the 1970s and 80s, the Sahel region of Africa has seen something of a recovery in its rainfall. A new study, just published in Nature Climate Change, suggests this ...

President John Mahama has met with the European Union Special Representative for the Sahel, João Cravinho, at the Presidency ...

The European Union is sounding the alarm over the escalating terrorist threat in Africa’s Sahel region, and its potential ...