Africa, the second-largest and second-most-populous continent globally, comprises 54 countries, each with its unique culture, history, and geography. To better understand this vast and diverse ...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings. Over half of all ...

Over half of all terrorism-related deaths in the world occur in the Sahel. That's according to a new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace. The vast region in Africa that lies just south ...