Russia expands influence in West Africa. According to the Africa Center, an academic institution within the US Department of ...

In Mali and Burkina Faso in the western Sahel, armed groups are taking over swaths of land while Niger also faces mounting threats. Although militaries there seized power in coups and expelled ...

Western nations have since refocused resources on efforts to shore up the northern regions of Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast, which border the Sahel. Ghana is a centrepiece of that pivot to ...

Jihadist insurgencies across the western Sahel—in countries such as Niger and Mali—and a ferocious civil war in Sudan have worsened the situation. In Sudan around 140,000 were displaced by ...

The U.N. chief says Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces are escalating attacks with outside powers “fueling the ...

Niger’s military government has revoked the operating license of the French aid organization Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (Acted), further distancing the West African country from ...

Burkina Faso military government has removed a curfew imposed on the West African nation eastern region in 2019 Read Full ...

Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation of 23 million in Sahel, an arid strip of land south of the Sahara ... selling beer and meat ...

reshaping Moscow's foreign policy and emphasising Africa as a space to compete fiercely with Western powers. Several Sahel countries are now run by military juntas that have sought closer ties ...

In this context, it is worth considering the possibility of the Sahel region becoming a battleground between Russia and Ukraine with substantial Western support, especially after the withdrawal of ...

As relations between the ruling juntas in the Sahel States Alliance (AES) and Western powers continue to worsen, Russia is ramping up economic initiatives to strengthen its influence in the region.