Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

The World Bank’s latest policy note explores how Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) can be strengthened in conflict-prone areas ...

Stakeholders assert that peace in the troubled Bawku township must go hand-in-hand with economic development after decades of ...

Interview. Activist Dayamba Bindré Roger warns that crises and conflicts increase vulnerability, making people easy targets ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannah in the south. It is characterised by ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the ...

From the Middle East to Europe, large-scale violent conflicts have broken out on multiple fronts in recent years. Against the ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established in 1975 with the aim of promoting economic integration ...

As Ghana struggles to monitor the porous northern border, impoverished communities are vulnerable to ...

Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has disclosed that President John Dramani Mahama is working to ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the ... of an important path for accountability and justice at a time when conflict-related abuses against civilians are rife in the Sahel region ...