The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all terrorism-related deaths", according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).

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Over half of all terrorism-related deaths in the world occur in the Sahel. That's according to a new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace. The vast region in Africa that lies ... famine ...

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The countries of the Sahel Confederation AES, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, continue in their project of mutual integration ...

As escalating conflicts draw in a growing number of actors and worsen the Sahel’s humanitarian crisis, a surge in destabilizing migration flows would be all but guaranteed. To avoid this outcome, the ...

Tensions with Paris and delayed document submission leave Bamako’s new Alliance of Sahel States travel papers in limbo.

While sub-Saharan Africa recorded a 5% decline in terrorism deaths in 2024 to 909 from the prior year, the Sahel has seen the steepest increases ... have intensified in the tri-border areas of Mali, ...

training and technology transfer in key areas of defence. China's inroads into West Africa, especially in the Sahel, come at a time when France has been losing clout in the region after the ...

The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism ... Its new report says that in this semi-arid area to the south of the Sahara Desert 3,885 people out of a worldwide total ...