Learn how conflict and climate change interact to form a compounded crisis in the Central Sahel, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions. Despite making up just 0.9% of the global population, the ...

Torrential rains during the Sahel’s rainy season (July to September) caused widespread flooding, displacing millions and submerging tens of thousands of hectares of cropland across Burkina Faso, Chad, ...

Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity and food ...

In this special series of The President’s Inbox on climate change, Beza Tesfaye, director of Research and Learning for Migration and Climate Change at Mercy Corps and senior associate for the Project ...

There is a climate and humanitarian crisis in the Central Sahel region—and more often than not, these two crises are linked. Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso are riven by a multifaceted emergency of ...

NIGERIA is ready to host the Secretariat of the Sahel Climate Fund, including equipping and provision of accommodation to the top management staff of the fund, according to President Muhammadu Buhari.

A compound crisis of armed conflict and climate change is driving unprecedented levels of humanitarian need, displacement and food insecurity in the Central Sahel: Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. But ...

April 18 (UPI) --An extreme once-in-a-century heat wave in Africa's Sahel and western regions that saw temperatures soar to as high as 48.5 degrees Celsius at the end of March and early April was ...

War is on the rise everywhere. When the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London published its authoritative Armed Conflict Survey in early December, it counted 183 conflicts globally ...

The Sahel region of Africa has become one of the world’s most dangerous and unstable security zones. Stretching across states ...