Sahel
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The U.S. finished its withdrawal from neighboring Niger in 2024, including from a drone base that conducted counterterrorism intelligence-gathering and reconnaissance missions in the Sahel.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
But the latest attacks mark a "major escalation in the conflict" between the military government and the rebels, said Jean-Hervé Jezequel, Sahel director with the International Crisis Group.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
These days, al-Qaida is broken up into several affiliates in sometimes overlapping geographical areas: the Sahel, North and West Africa; Syria; Somalia; Yemen; and finally, a very small group in South Asia.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026
Checker said that the Sahel states have shown an "openness" to resuming security cooperation with the United States but that it would take time as there was a "severe, understandable trust deficit."
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
A further likely example is the east-west spread of crops within Africa’s wide Sahel zone, but paleobotanists have yet to work out the details.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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