World
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Africa
1/31/2025 5:55:56 PM
President Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday welcomed the "definitive and complete departure" of French forces from Chad which marks the end of France's last foothold in the wider jihadist-hit Sahel region.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
1/28/2025 5:48:24 PM
While the US has sought to expand its presence across Africa, its influence in the West African Sahel region has declined, writes Farouk Hussein Abu Deif
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/20/2025 10:17:57 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty and NATO chief Mark Rutte discussed Monday in a phone call the rising challenges and threats facing the Middle East, including the situation in Syria, developments in Gaza, tensions in the Red Sea, and instability in the Sahel region of Africa.
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World
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Africa
1/12/2025 8:29:31 PM
The Sahel region of Africa, between the Sahara and the tropical savannahs to the south, has emerged as a significant base of groups that want to establish jihadist states.
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World
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Africa
1/5/2025 11:04:12 AM
Mali's army said Saturday its forces had arrested two men, one of them a leading figure in the Sahel branch of the Islamic State group.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
11/1/2024 6:47:21 PM
At a repurposed restaurant, now a newly opened gallery, Chadian visual artist Doff showcases his art made from rusty Kalashnikov shells -- and supports aspiring young artists in the Sahel country's nascent art scene.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/30/2024 4:27:53 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty reaffirmed Egypt's full support for Niger and Africa's Sahel region in combating terrorism, given the instability in the area due to the activities of terrorist groups.
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World
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Region
10/23/2024 10:30:00 PM
Israel is now repeating in Lebanon its same path of destruction and death inflicted on Gaza hospitals, especially Al-Shifa, claiming that Sahel Hospital lies above a hidden Hezbollah bunker, allegations that were debunked when journalists investigated the facility.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/15/2024 6:48:03 PM
The African Sahel region has emerged as a new front in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, writes Farouk Hussein Abu Deif
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World
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Africa
7/26/2024 6:49:11 PM
Senegal intercepted 200 "irregular migrants", the army said Friday, just days after 90 people drowned off the coast of Mauritania while attempting the same crossing.
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World
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Africa
7/9/2024 11:05:00 PM
Scores of Boko Haram jihadists and their relatives have surrendered since July to an African multinational force in Niger and Cameroon, the force said Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
7/9/2024 5:49:25 PM
The creation of a Sahel confederation on Saturday plunged West Africa into an unprecedented crisis that could threaten the free movement of people and goods in the region.
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World
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Africa
7/6/2024 12:12:43 PM
A divided West Africa hosts two presidential summits this weekend -- one in Niger between Sahel region military regime leaders, followed by another in Nigeria on Sunday with leaders of a wider economic bloc.
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World
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Region
6/29/2024 5:40:58 PM
Mauritanians began voting Saturday to decide whether to re-elect President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani as head of the desert country, an oasis of peace in Africa's volatile Sahel region.
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World
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Africa
6/19/2024 5:15:14 PM
Jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin, a new report said Wednesday, the latest trend in the militants' movements to wealthier West African coastal nations.
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World
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International
6/6/2024 7:43:15 PM
Russia's top diplomat pledged help and military assistance while on a whirlwind tour of several countries in Africa's sub-Saharan region of Sahel this week, as Moscow seeks to grow its influence in the restive, mineral-rich section of the continent.
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World
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Africa
5/29/2024 7:30:51 PM
Action must be taken immediately to address the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel or other countries will be drawn in and it will "become a problem for the world", a UNHCR official warned Wednesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
5/21/2024 9:00:08 PM
The up-and-coming filmmaker Amina Abdoulaye Mamani talks about The Envoy of God, a film that looks deep into the heart of terrorism in Niger. The film won the Best Short Film award at Aswan International Women Film Festival last month.
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World
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Africa
3/12/2024 4:21:01 PM
Turkey, Iran and Morocco are vying for a greater economic and military role in Africa's Sahel after former colonial ruler France's forced withdrawal from the volatile region.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
2/29/2024 8:06:00 PM
Egypt's western Mediterranean coast is a top summer vacation spot for locals, with two names ingrained in their lexicon since the mid-1990s: Al-Sahel Al-Shamali — the North Coast — and sometimes simply Al-Sahel, or the coast.
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