Tag: The Sahel
Islamist militancy at high levels in the Sahel
A 50% spike in fatalities linked to militant Islamist groups in the Sahel and Somalia over the past year eclipsed the previous high in...
US envoy for the Sahel
The United States created a special envoy post for Africa’s Sahel region, a State Department spokesman said, to counter rising violence from groups linked...
The Sahel faces growing threats
Amid a proliferation of militant groups and "disquieting" levels of food insecurity the situation in the Sahel has become increasingly fragile a...
Organised crime and terrorism among big threats facing the Sahel
Terrorism, trafficking in arms, drugs and people and other transnational forms of organised crime threaten security in Africa's vast sub-Saharan Sahel region,...
