Lake Chad Basin: repeated flooding weakens an already stricken region Better water retention infrastructure would enable communities to withstand the region’s many security and developmental challenges. The Lake Chad Basin faces multiple challenges, including Boko
A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who now hold sway
For years, France choreographed the politics of the Sahel with soldiers and secret deals. Today, the tables have turned For half a century, Niger’s plains fed France’s atomic dreams. The uranium pulled from the ground
Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) claimed its first attack in Nigeria on 28 October. The strike, in the north of Kwara State near the Benin border, left one soldier dead. The Sahel-based group says
Families gunned down as they huddled for safety. Young children weeping over their mother’s body in the desert. Doctors seized for ransom and executed. Such are the stories trickling out of El Fashir, the Sudanese
“Nostalgic for the colonial era and concerned by the loss of influence in Sahel”, France is intent on destabilizing the AES by providing intelligence, “logistical support, arms and ammunition” to the terrorist groups, Mali, Burkina
Le président américain Donald Trump a annoncé avoir ordonné au Pentagone de se préparer à une éventuelle intervention militaire au Nigeria si le gouvernement nigérian persistait à tolérer le massacre de chrétiens, comme il l’a
Villagers gathered for evening prayers at the mosque in Manda, Niger, on June 20. Soon after, the killers arrived. Terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State group (IS) slaughtered 70 worshippers at the mosque. The handful
Two Islamist armed groups have killed several dozen civilians in three separate attacks in northern Burkina Faso since May. Since the start of their insurgency in Burkina Faso in 2016, the Islamist armed groups have
The Maçina Liberation Front (FLM) launched a series of seven simultaneous attacks spanning hundreds of kilometers in western Mali in border towns near Senegal and Mauritania on July 1, 2025. This represented a dramatic shift