The UN has warned that weapons "looted during the 2011 conflict in Libya" are fueling ongoing insecurity in West Africa.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Nouhoun Sidibè was a herder, like his father and grandfather, and took pride in his identity as a pastoralist. That's until the day armed men descended on his home in ...

Drought is often blamed for Nigeria's farmer-herder violence. But new research shows clashes rise mainly where Muslim herders ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Nouhoun Sidibè was a herder, like his father and grandfather, and took pride in his identity as a pastoralist. That’s until the day armed men descended on his home in ...

The United Nations (UN) has revealed that weapons stolen during the 2011 Libyan conflict later found their way into the hands of terrorist groups operating in Nigeria and other countries in the Sahel ...

Spanning the area from Senegal to Eritrea, situated between the Sahara to the north and the African tropics to the south, the Sahel region has long faced severe, complex security and humanitarian ...

Thirteen French soldiers died Tuesday in a mid-air helicopter collision in Mali, highlighting a worsening security situation in the Sahel and casting doubt on efforts to contain the violence. A mostly ...

The Sahel, an African region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean on the West Coast to the Red Sea on the East Coast, is often reduced to an area of armed conflicts and security crises by the ...

Top United Nations and Non-Governmental aid officials today sounded the alarm over rising conflict and insecurity that have accelerated forced displacement across the Sahel, where millions of people ...

From its usual location in the shadow of world politics, the Sahel region has in a matter of weeks assumed unprecedented geopolitical significance. The complex set of security threats coalescing in ...