A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

General Abdourahamane Tiani, who secured his first presidential mandate at the end of March, is trying to maintain the ...

Ghana has reaffirmed its unwavering solidarity with Niger and other members of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), as President John Dramani Mahama extends support to the newly inaugurated Conseil ...

As armed groups shift away from direct confrontations with the military, commercial drones are increasingly used to carry out attacks.Terror groups are increasingly using new tactics, notably armed ...

The 2024 crisis exposed structural faults at the core of the West African regional body. At 50, can the once-great ...

The alliance of Sahel states have officially launched the Alliance of Agricultural Seed Producers of the Sahel (APSA-Sahel), ...

The World Bank’s Pathways to Scale highlights how economic inclusion programs across the Sahel, especially those targeting ...

Al Itissan Al-Jadeed has been contracted to oversee an upgrade of the passport and national ID systems of the Republic of ...

The G5 Sahel Joint Force was set up in 2017 to fight terrorism and the trafficking of drugs and people in the region. Its objective was to foster regional cooperation and address security threats in ...

Sahel juntas pile pressure on foreign mining firms AFP AFP Jun 20, 2025 Updated Jun 21, 2025 Niger wants to nationalise the local branch of Orano, a uranium mining company mostly owned by France ...

- Tug-of-war - Niger's nationalisation of Orano's local branch Somair has brought a months-long struggle with the French firm to a peak. Orano, which is 90-percent owned by the French state, had ...