Burkina Faso News » Sahel News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: Online Event: Humanitarian Crisis in the Sahel: Steps toward Food Security, Stability, and Peace
As instability and economic downturn spread across the Central Sahel, hunger is spiking: nearly 7.5 million people face severe food insecurity in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. Opening up pathways for ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: Online Event: The 2nd Annual Sahel Summit
The Sahel is facing a lethal combination of security, humanitarian, and political crises. Since the start of 2019, violent events across Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have resulted in nearly 10,000 ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: 170 killed in Burkina Faso massacre as French-Russian rivalry grows in Sahel
In a series of massacres over the past two weeks, more than 170 people were killed in Burkina Faso, a former French colony plunged into bloodshed by France’s 2013-2022 war in neighboring Mali. Victims ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: Sahel Gold Mines Fuel Terror Groups
Sahel terrorists are targeting gold mines and surrounding communities in search of revenue, recruits and weaponry such as explosives. In some cases, the ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: Human-caused climate change fuels extreme heat in Africa’s Sahel region: Burkina Faso and Mali
We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around the world that was made more likely by human-caused climate change. Climate Matters is ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: West African leaders’ summit opens as coup-hit countries form alliance
A West African leaders’ summit has opened a day after the military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger forged a new alliance severing ties with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: Egypt pledges counterterrorism aid and expanded trade in talks with Burkina Faso
Egypt has offered comprehensive counterterrorism support to Burkina Faso to combat insurgency in West Africa and the Sahel, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Tuesday during security and ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: The Sahel blind spot: How Russia’s ‘Africa Corps’ outmaneuvered US Special Operations
America’s withdrawal from Niger did more than close two air bases; it opened a structural intelligence blind spot that Russia was ready to exploit.
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: How the Sahel junta is responding to climate change amid political isolation
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Torrential rains during the Sahel’s rainy season (July to September) caused widespread flooding, displacing millions and submerging tens of ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: Abuses by Sahel Security Forces Against Citizens in Burkina Faso Down
Once commonplace, abuses by state security forces against civilians in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have dropped sharply in the previous year, according to rights groups. Boubacar, whose name has been ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: Famine and Climate Change Are Making Africa a Terrorist Tinderbox
The village of Siédougou in Burkina Faso, at the forefront of the Sahel’s climate crisis In the village of Siédougou, a tiny sun-scorched cluster of straw and mud huts in the remote northern reaches ...
News Burkina Faso » Sahel » Events: Niger’s failed coup is a warning to the Sahel’s military rulers: those with power must keep their promises
Military leaders in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger came to power promising to defeat the insurgencies plaguing their countries. Instead, insecurity has worsened.