Channel
@sahelintel2
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701subscribers
-20 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001886937862 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @sahelintel2 |
| Created | Between 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 October 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 24 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 12 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 24 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/sahelintel2 |
International news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 6 October 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 85% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Oct 2026, 21:31 | 701 | +1 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 08:58 | 700 | -2 |
| 10 Oct 2026, 13:00 | 702 | -5 |
| 6 Oct 2026, 12:22 | 707 | no change |
| 1 Oct 2026, 03:42 | 707 | -6 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 13:01 | 713 | +1 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 19:39 | 712 | -2 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 14:44 | 714 | -2 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 07:55 | 716 | -1 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 17:25 | 717 | -3 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 05:57 | 720 | -1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 10:33 | 721 | first reading |
19 posts held, back to 26 October 2023 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 19 posts for this entry, the most recent from 4 November 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
80 reactions across 16 posts, in 12 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 27.5% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 22 | 27.5% | |
| 💯 | 9 | 11.3% | |
| ❤ | 8 | 10.0% | |
| 👎 | 8 | 10.0% | |
| 🤔 | 7 | 8.75% | |
| ❤🔥 | 6 | 7.50% | |
| 😱 | 5 | 6.25% | |
| 💩 | 4 | 5.00% | |
| 🔥 | 4 | 5.00% | |
| 😁 | 4 | 5.00% | |
| 😢 | 2 | 2.50% | |
| 👏 | 1 | 1.25% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 17 of the 19 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 80 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 19 most recent posts we hold, published 26 October 2023 to 4 November 2023, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
🇲🇱 Drone strikes in Kidal Last night in Kidal, drones launched by the Malian Armed Forces and Wagner Group struck targets at the ex-MINUSMA base recently occupied by the Tuareg separatist CSP. Casualties are currently unknown. This may be the beginning of the Malian junta's announced 'grand offensive' to retake the north of the country. - Wamaps
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#BurkinaFaso (#Sahel) 🇧🇫: #ISIS militants carried out an attack on Al-Qaeda (#JNIM) militants in Kalamba, Kaya. As a result ISIS militants captured Serbian Zastava M05E1 rifles, RPG-7 Launcher, Bulgarian PG-7V rocket, Chinese Type 56(-1/-2) rifles, Zastava M70AB2 rifle etc... https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1720091173589807568
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🇳🇬 Students storm EFCC office in Ibadan after 72 arrested without warrant Students from Obafemi Awolowo University in southwest Nigeria stormed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) office in Ibadan, protesting the arrest of classmates by the anti-graft agency. 72 university students were detained without reason during a midnight raid of their residences, and their phones were confiscated. The univer…
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🇳🇪 National Director for Niger of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), M. Rafa, has been arrested by Nigérien junta authorities.
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🇲🇱 🏴☠️ 🏴 The current situation in Mali is complex. 🔶️ "The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) and Wagner have been struggling against the growing AQIM and JNIM insurgency." 🔶️ "Recently, Azawad separatists (MLNA) renewed their fight for independence against the government, capturing several FAMa bases." 🔶️ "MINUSMA (UN) forces are exiting Mali upon the government's demand. FAMa and Wagner, departing from Gao, headed nort…
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🇺🇸🇳🇪🇬🇦🇨🇫🇺🇬 US to remove Niger, other African countries from AGOA The Biden administration is set to remove Niger, Gabon, the Central African Republic and Uganda from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) preferential trade system starting from January 2024. The AGOA allows eligible African countries duty-free access to export to the US in certain sectors, such as textiles. AGOA exports from Niger to the US…
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🇮🇳🇳🇬 Indian Muslim televangelist meets "Muslim Airforce" in Nigeria Famed Islamic televangelist Dr. Zakir Naik, who is now banned from his native India and a host of other countries for 'extremist' views, is now visiting Nigeria. He was invited to give a lecture tour in the country by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa'ad Abubakar. Naik has infuriated Nigerian Christians by repeatedly labelling everything and everyone in th…
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🇳🇪🇳🇬 Niamey court confirms ex-President Mohamed Bazoum attempted to escape to Nigeria An appeal court in Niger's capital has confirmed that an elaborate plan was devised by ex-President Bazoum and his supporters to escape the country, despite being under house arrest since a military coup earlier this year. Bazoum, his family, and his cooks planned to be smuggled to a house on the outskirts of Niamey, and from ther…
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🇳🇪 Islamic State finally publishes photos from a massive spree of ambushes on Nigerien army at the beginning of October, where Niger suffered disastrous casualties with over 120 soldiers killed. Hundreds of jihadists on pick-ups and motorcycles in action. This is only the prelude to the war in Sahel that is unfolding. Both AQ and IS exploit the vacuum that Wagner and voluntary militias armed by juntas simply cannot …
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🇳🇬 State House of Assembly attacked by arsonists in Nigeria's Rivers state The southern state of Rivers saw its State House of Assembly attacked by arsonists yesterday, believed to be goons of local politicians. The Assembly recently voted to begin the process of impeaching House Speaker Edison While and Rivers Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara. Soon afterwards, a riot broke out outside the assembly, suppressed by po…
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🇲🇱🇳🇪 Via Departamente: Since August 20, the Niger junta has provided its C130 military transport aircraft number 5UMBH to the Malian military government as part of military support against CSP-PSD forces. This cargo ship, supported by a second (less frequent) one, makes several trips along the route Bamako-Gao-Tessalit-Niamay-Bamako. The images accompanying the post were taken at Modibo Keita International Airpo…
🇲🇱🇳🇪 #Mali🇲🇱 - Unconfirmed claims that a plane was shot down near Tessalit airport (Amachach). Rumors that the plane was a C-130. Malis Air Force does not own a C-130, so it may be a Niger🇳🇪 Air Force C-130H. Waiting for more information. https://twitter.com/fabsenbln/status/1718953621776126002?t=Cf_kcN2D1T6xI9pyZAxN1Q&s=19
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Showing the 12 most recent of 19 posts we hold for @sahelintel2. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
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Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 24 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Sahel Intel” (@sahelintel2), 701 subscribers as measured 24 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/sahelintel2.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.