Mali and its neighbours have for more than a decade battled militant groups allied to Islamic State and al-Qaeda while ...

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

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.

a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. The violence, which started in Mali in 2012 and has now extended to Burkina Faso and Niger ...

Its new report says that in this semi-arid area to the south of the Sahara Desert 3,885 people out ... region includes parts of 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Cameroon, Guinea, The ...

Another of Mali's festivals -- The Festival in the Desert outside Timbuktu - once ... which like its counterparts in Burkina Faso and Niger has kicked out French forces. Mali's authorities ...

China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held at the Chinese embassy in the capital Niamey. In front of Chinese ambassador ...

The thud of boots in the quiet village of Wela tucked away in central Mali signals the Russian mercenaries' sudden arrival. A manhunt is under way but this time, it's for a woman.

SALE, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan authorities this month arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the ...

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