Sudan’s army is expanding its position in the central part of the country as its civil war against the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, enters another critical phase. Recent fighting in North Kordofan has given the army control of additional territory and key roads,...
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Sahel: Niger Emerges as Key Battleground as JNIM and Islamic State Collide
A rival jihadist war may be heating up in the Sahel, and Niger could be the place where the conflict could turn into a major strategic contest. The latest reporting and claims suggest that the rivalry between JNIM, the al-Qaeda-aligned network, and the Islamic State...
The Nigeria Precedent: Why Degrading One Group Won’t Secure Mali
Since late December 2025, US Africa Command has been conducting airstrikes in northern Nigeria alongside the Nigerian military, targeting ISWAP and Boko Haram fighters. The campaign escalated in May 2026 into a joint offensive combining special forces raids with...
Sahel: How Gold and Jihadist Violence Are Redrawing the Guinea-Mali Border
Along the border between Guinea and Mali, two forces are reshaping the landscape: armed jihadist groups pushing south from the Sahel, and a rapidly expanding gold economy that reaches from small riverside pits to industrial mines. Together, they are transforming...
Behind the Algeria-Mali Rapprochement: Security, Trade and a Sahel Reorder
For 15 months, Algeria and Mali were locked in a diplomatic standoff that froze airspace, stalled ambassadorial contacts, and deepened mistrust over how to handle the war in the Sahel. In early July, Bamako and Algiers jointly moved to restore relations, with the...
North Africa and the Sahel on Alert Over Locust Upsurge
An upsurge of desert locusts is taking shape in Northwest Africa, with Morocco currently facing the highest pressure while Algeria, Mauritania, and Sahel countries prepare for possible summer migrations. Recent reports from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization...
Mauritania Battles Dual Outbreaks Amid Sahel’s Shifting Climate
Mauritania is contending with concurrent outbreaks of diphtheria and Rift Valley fever that have left at least 36...
Senegal Battles Dual Epidemics: Monkeypox and Rift Valley Fever
Senegalese health authorities have announced two concurrent epidemics: monkeypox (Mpox) and Rift Valley fever. So far,...
Mauritania and Senegal Report Rift Valley Fever Deaths Amid Regional Outbreak
Health authorities in Mauritania and Senegal are grappling with a new outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF), a...
Health: World Health Organization concerned about unprecedented number “intersecting health emergencies,” appeals for money
The World Health Organization on Monday appealed for $2.54 billion for its work in 2023 to help millions of people...
Sahel: Millions of people face food shortages
The United Nations warned Friday that up to 18 million people in the Sahel face severe food insecurity, with rations...
US-Russia competition expands to Mali and the Sahel
The top US military commander for Africa on Thursday suggested that impoverished and jihadist-hit Mali was paying...
Sahel: Disasters hit Niger hard
By Boureima Hama Few countries in the world struggle with as many burdens as Niger. The arid Sahel state is the...
Sahel: The country of Niger faces Covid and cholera at once
First Covid Delta cases emerge in Niger The first cases of Delta variant of Covid-19 have been recorded in the...
Mali: Less than two months after his release by Jihadists, opposition leader Soumaila Cisse has died of Covid-19
Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cisse has died of coronavirus aged 71, his family and party said Friday, after being...
Health: Shortly after the UN declared polio eradicated in Africa, cases emerge in Chad
Dozens of polio cases have been detected in Chad just months after the UN declared the disease eradicated in Africa,...
Sahel: Upsurge of malaria cases in Mali
Malaria cases in northern Mali have spiked, according to medical workers, claiming 23 lives in the often lawless...
Niger to drive UN talks on post Covid-19
United Nations, United States, Sept 1, 2020 - Niger, the current president of the UN Security Council, said Tuesday it...
Niger confronted with multiple natural disasters
Heavy rains that have struck Niger since June have claimed 19 lives and inflicted economic harm on tens of thousands...
Mali announces reopening of air and land borders
Bamako, July 24, 2020 - Mali announced Friday that it would shortly re-open its air and land borders after a...