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While the Sahel Faces Worsening Security Climate, Juntas Leverage Regional Integration to Consolidate Power

Sahelian juntas push regional integration, abolishing roaming charges and unifying ID documents, but these efforts bolster their control. Amid human rights abuses and worsening jihadist crises, reliance on Russia and regional tensions leave citizens in peril.

Mining Standoffs in the Sahel: Two Companies in the Midst of a Foreign Investor Crisis

French uranium firm Orano faces a standoff with Niger over its Somaïr subsidiary, while Mali has issued arrest warrants for Barrick Gold’s CEO in a contract dispute.

Sahel: Foreign Mining Firms Face Growing Risks as Juntas Assert Control Over Resources

Foreign mining companies in the Sahel are encountering unprecedented challenges as the military juntas in Mali and Niger tighten their grip on natural resources.

Sahel/Sahara: Unprecedented Summer Flooding Devastates Numerous Regions

Every summer, the Sahara and Sahel regions experience floodings that cause deaths and damage. This year, however, the magnitude of the destruction appears more severe. In this month of August, devastating rains and floods hit the corridor stretching from southern...

Jihadist Expansion Threatens Coastal West Africa

Aug 5, 2025

The Sahel is confronting an intensifying insurgency that continues to evolve in scale and complexity. Armed groups...

Sahel: Terror Groups Gain Ground as Armies Struggle to Contain Them

Feb 7, 2025

Al-Qaeda’s Sahel branch, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM or GNIM in French) is now emerging as the region’s...

While the Sahel Faces Worsening Security Climate, Juntas Leverage Regional Integration to Consolidate Power

Dec 11, 2024

The demise of the Bachar Al-Assad regime in Syria is giving the Sahelian juntas of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso second...

Sahel: Suspected jihadists kill 4 Mali soldiers, 2 civilians in Tessit

Aug 8, 2022

At least four soldiers, two civilians and five assailants were killed on Sunday in an attack in a strategic border...

Terrorism: Insurgents raid bus in SW Niger, kill 21 passengers

Mar 17, 2022

Suspected jihadists attacked a bus and a truck in southwest Niger, killing 21 people in the troubled Tillaberi region...

Sahel: 18 civilians killed in Jihadist attack in west Niger

Feb 22, 2022

Eighteen civilians have been killed in two suspected jihadist attacks in the west of Niger near the Sahel nation's...

Security/Sahel: Joint Burkina Faso/Niger counter-insurgency operation claims neutralizing dozens of jihadists

Dec 10, 2021

The armies of Burkina Faso and neighbouring Niger said Thursday they had killed around 100 "terrorists" in a joint...

Sahel: Niger president says weapons from Libya fuel violence in Sahel

Dec 6, 2021

Niger President Mohamed Bazoum on Monday urged his country's allies to step up the fight against arms trafficking from...

Sahel: Disasters hit Niger hard

Dec 3, 2021

By Boureima Hama Few countries in the world struggle with as many burdens as Niger. The arid Sahel state is the...

Niger: Unable to get protection from the government, Niger villagers are now forming militia groups

Nov 25, 2021

By Boureima Hama Abdoulaye casts a questioning eye over the passengers of a car that has pulled up at the entrance to...

Security: As Russia’s influence in Africa grows, EU wants to impose sanctions on Russian mercenaries Wagner

Nov 18, 2021

EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to draw up more sanctions on shadowy Russian mercenary group Wagner over its...

Sahel: Jihadists strike in Niger’s Tillaberi region

Nov 4, 2021

A jihadist attack in Niger's volatile "tri-border" zone with Burkina Faso and Mali has killed dozens of members of a...

Inside West Africa’s drug trade

Oct 15, 2021

By Selim Saheb Ettaba: West Africa is a small but strategic hub for smugglers moving drugs from Latin America to...

Sahel: Niger opens first military school in Niamey

Oct 15, 2021

Facing a spate of jihadist attacks, Niger on Friday opened its first military school in the capital Niamey to train...

Sahel: UN and NATO mulling over support to Sahelian armies in combating militant groups

Oct 8, 2021

NATO is studying options to bolster support for the multinational G5 Sahel force in the troubled three-borders region...

Sahel: The country of Niger faces Covid and cholera at once

Sep 3, 2021

First Covid Delta cases emerge in Niger The first cases of Delta variant of Covid-19 have been recorded in the...

Sahel: 16 soldiers killed in jihadist-hit southeast Niger

Aug 25, 2021

An attack by hundreds of Boko Haram fighters on a town in Niger's jihadist-plagued southeast killed 16 soldiers and...

A destabilized region: Awful week in the Sahel

Aug 19, 2021

Introduction by Arezki Daoud: For years, several analysts made dire predictions about where the Sahel was headed....

Niger: Torrentials rains and raging floods kills dozens in Maradi and Agadez

Aug 14, 2021

Heavy rains that have lashed Niger since June have claimed 64 lives, authorities said on Saturday, as floods and...

Niger: Several regions experiencing severe flooding, dozens killed

Aug 4, 2021

Heavy rains lashing arid Niger since June have killed 35 people and made more than 26,500 homeless, the civil...

Sahel: Another attack in SW Niger at border with Burkina Faso

Aug 2, 2021

Fifteen soldiers have been killed and six more are missing after a "terrorist" attack in southwest Niger, near the...

Niger: Civilians, soldiers and armed attackers killed in Tillaberi clash

Jul 12, 2021

Five civilians, four soldiers and 40 armed attackers were killed Sunday in a clash in Niger's restive southwest region...

Sahel: Despite announcing troop drawdown plan, France insists it will not leave the Sahel

Jul 9, 2021

France to start closing military bases in Mali by year-end President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that France would...

Sahel: France announces arrest of ISGS’ Abou Dardar

Jun 22, 2021

By Didier Lauras with Amaury Hauchard in Bamako French forces in Mali have captured a man they describe as a...

Niger: Bandits ambush and kill policemen in Agadez

Jun 10, 2021

Three Nigerien policemen and a gendarme were killed overnight Wednesday when their patrol was ambushed on the border...

Sahel: France to announce withdrawal of troops from Sahel as region slides into uncontrollable violence

Jun 10, 2021

By Daphné Benoit French President Emmanuel Macron is set to announce Thursday a partial withdrawal of French troops...

Benin: Growing risk of Jihad contagion from the Sahel in West Africa’s Benin

Jun 10, 2021

Jihadists operating near Benin's borders with Burkina Faso and Niger may coopt intensifying communal conflicts in the...

Niger: Two Chinese workers kidnapped in Mbanga

Jun 7, 2021

Armed men have kidnapped two Chinese employees of a mining company in a volatile area near western Niger's borders...

Sahel: No break during the Eid holiday: Five villagers killed in Niger’s Tillaberi region

May 13, 2021

Five people were killed on Wednesday in an attack on a village in the western Tillaberi region of Niger, near the...

Sahel: More bloodshed in Niger as new attack in Banibangou claims 15 soldiers

May 6, 2021

Niger's government said Wednesday that 15 of its soldiers were killed in a "terrorist attack" near the border with...

Sahel: Clashes in Niger intensify, dozens killed

May 3, 2021

Niger army killed 24 'suspected terrorists': government Niger troops killed 24 "suspected terrorists' after they...

Chad: Hunt of alleged killers of president Deby expands to Niger

Apr 26, 2021

Chad's new ruling junta on Sunday vowed to root out a rebel leader accused of "war crimes", seeking help from...

Sahel: West Niger gripped by deadly violence

Apr 18, 2021

Nineteen civilians were killed when armed men raided a village in west Niger close to the border with Mali, a local...

Niger’s new president term starts amid intense violence

Apr 4, 2021

Niger's defence ministry said Sunday that four of its soldiers had been killed the day before in twin "terrorist"...

Africa: With terror groups intensely fixated on Africa, security outlook feels gloomy

Apr 1, 2021

By Didier Lauras - From the arid expanses of the Sahel into the Sinai Peninsula and now Mozambique, Africa is proving...

Sahel: Violence in Niger as country prepares to inaugurate a new president

Apr 1, 2021

By Boureima Hama - Elite troops in Niger thwarted an "attempted coup" early Wednesday, a security source said, just...

Sahel: Attacks on Niger targets continue

Mar 26, 2021

Eleven people were killed on Wednesday in western Niger, a flashpoint for jihadist attacks, when armed men on...

Sahel: Niger’s Tahoua region targeted by terror groups, dozens killed in fresh raids

Mar 23, 2021

Scores of people have died in the deadliest suspected jihadist massacre ever to hit Niger, the government said Monday,...

Sahel: Mass killings continue, another deadly week in Mali and Niger

Mar 19, 2021

Mali: Raids on army post near Ansongo claim lives of 33 soldiers By Serge Daniel - At least 33 soldiers were killed in...

Sahel: Unfolding humanitarian crisis in Niger with growing masses of refugees from Nigeria and from within

Mar 4, 2021

The United Nations warned Tuesday that bloodshed in northwestern Nigeria was fuelling an exodus into neighbouring...

Sahel: Profile of Niger’s new president, Mohamed Bazoum

Feb 25, 2021

By Boureima Hama - Mohamed Bazoum, named the winner of Niger's presidential election, worked for years as the...

Niger: Former interior minister wins presidential elections, violence ensues

Feb 25, 2021

By Amaury Hauchard - Former interior minister Mohamed Bazoum won Niger's presidential elections, according to...

Sahel: People of Niger vote for a new president

Feb 22, 2021

By Boureima Hama and Amaury Hauchard - Niger voted Sunday in a presidential run-off between two political heavyweights...

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