Channel
@sahelmonitor
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
278subscribers
+243 since we began measuring on 11 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1003743093956 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @sahelmonitor |
| Created | Between 1 February 2026 and 31 July 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 11 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 26 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 7 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 26 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/sahelmonitor |
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 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 59% 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 why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Sept 2026, 17:41 | 278 | +38 |
| 12 Sept 2026, 16:58 | 240 | +31 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 17:21 | 209 | +30 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 05:53 | 179 | +19 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 13:18 | 160 | +120 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 09:03 | 40 | +5 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 18:30 | 35 | first reading |
13 posts held, back to 5 August 2026 — 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 13 posts for this entry, the most recent from 11 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 7 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
67 reactions across 13 posts, in 13 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 25.4% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🤯 | 17 | 25.4% | |
| 🤔 | 15 | 22.4% | |
| 🔥 | 10 | 14.9% | |
| 😱 | 8 | 11.9% | |
| 🤓 | 5 | 7.46% | |
| ❤ | 3 | 4.48% | |
| ✍ | 2 | 2.99% | |
| 😢 | 2 | 2.99% | |
| 👎 | 1 | 1.49% | |
| 💩 | 1 | 1.49% | |
| 😁 | 1 | 1.49% | |
| 🤨 | 1 | 1.49% | |
| 🤮 | 1 | 1.49% |
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 13 of the 13 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 67 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 13 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 11 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
🏴☠️🤝🦒 It’s worth noting that the only group in the Sahel that has environmental policies to combat the targeting of endangered species is the Islamic State, which has outlawed such killings. The Islamic State also started a plastic-waste reduction campaign while in Syria and Iraq, and they apparently continue it in their Sahel and West Africa Provinces.
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🇦🇫❌🦒 JNIM killed an endangered giraffe in Niger, where fewer than 200 giraffes remain.
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🇦🇫❌🇲🇱 JNIM show a video of the equipment captured after overrunning the San military base in the Ségou region.
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🏴☠️❌🇨🇲 On August 10, 2026, the Islamic State West Africa Province attacked a Cameroonian military position in the village of Sagmé in the Far North Region. 📍12.51849, 14.27271
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🏴☠️❌🇳🇬 On August 10, 2026, the Islamic State West Africa Province attacked a Nigerian military base near the town of Gajiram, Borno State. The base was overrun by the militants. 📍12.47413, 13.19923
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🏴☠️❌🇳🇬 On August 5, 2026, the Islamic State West Africa Province killed 1 Nigerian Army member in an attack on an army position in the town of Buratai, Borno State.
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🏴☠️❌🇳🇬 Footage of the attack.
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🇦🇫❌🇲🇱 On August 9, 2026, JNIM attacked a Malian military base near the town of San, in the Ségou Region. The base was overrun by the militants. 📍13.26479, -4.89434
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🇦🇫❌🇲🇱 On August 8, 2026, JNIM fighters attacked a fuel convoy heading to Bamako.
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🇷🇺🇲🇱❌🇦🇫🏳️ Multiple civilians were killed yesterday in a drone attack conducted by the Russian Africa Corps on the JNIM/FLA coalition-controlled town of Tin Zaouatine in the Kidal Region.
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🇦🇫❌🇧🇫 JNIM has captured the town of Dargo in the Kuilsé Region. 📍12.71944, -0.28285
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🏴☠️❌🇳🇬 On July 30, 2026, the Islamic State West Africa Province detonated an IED on the road between Ajiri and Dikwa in Borno State, killing 3 Nigerian soldiers and destroying their vehicle.
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Showing the 12 most recent of 13 posts we hold for @sahelmonitor. 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.
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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 26 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Sahel Monitor” (@sahelmonitor), 278 subscribers as measured 26 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/sahelmonitor.
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.