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 ...

BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Rising greenhouse gases have boosted rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa, easing droughts that killed 100,000 people in the 1970s and 1980s, in a rare positive effect of ...

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The violence and challenges facing the region are not only due to the conflict, but are also tied to diminishing usable land and unpredictable water resources, Peter Maurer, president of the ...

From the advancing sands of the Sahel to shrinking farmlands and vanishing forests, northern Nigeria has long been at the forefront of climate change. Communities that once depended on fertile soil, ...

The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution has warned that climate change is now a direct driver of armed conflict and mass displacement in Nigeria and the wider Sahel region, calling for urgent ...

Leaders of 17 countries on the rim of the Sahel began talks on Monday on a nearly $400-billion plan to help the fragile region cope with climate change. The 2018-30 scheme, covering countries ranging ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria, has launched the Scaling-Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall Area ...

At the heart of the Sahel’s many crises, ranging from armed conflict and democratic erosion to climate-induced poverty, one thing stood out at the inaugural Sahel Governance Forum in Banjul: this is ...