Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday that the strikes by U.S. Africa Command were directed by Trump and coordinated with Somalia's government.
The handover of the last French military base in Chad and the Sahel marks a loss of influence for Paris and European interests in the region.
France officially ended its decades-long military presence in Chad, its last stronghold in the West African region. The shift ...
Habboub Cherkaoui, head of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, said it foiled a 'dangerous terrorist plot', and ...
Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way to interview one of the group's leaders in northern Mali ...
Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...
N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation ...
Former diplomats on Thursday warned that the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African States could undermine regional stability, potentially escalating ...
The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...
Junta-led governments in the Sahel region are tightening controls in their mining sectors, seeking to upend what they call traditional exploitation by foreign firms. But that has created uncertainty ...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has raised an urgent alarm over the increasing influx of foreign fighters from the Sahel into terrorist groups operating within Nigeria. This growing trend poses a ...
How should the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) deal with the Sahel juntas, as they plan to break away from the community and form a separate group, the Confederacy of the Sahel ...