It is an all too common story. A Guinean teenager is unable to envision his future in a hometown increasingly characterized by joblessness and insecurity. He cultivates delusions of grandeur through ...

Travel across Africa’s Sahel, where Muslims and Christians unite to fight desertification. Gulnaz Khan travels across Africa’s Sahel, where desertification threatens entire communities. Muslims and ...

Sudan’s ongoing humanitarian crisis after more than a year of civil war shows few signs of abating. And amid the fighting, a significant and troubling development looks set to complicate the conflict ...

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, ...

Africa’s Sahel, the semi-arid region that borders on the Sahara desert, is the poorest region of the world. It is also in crisis. The Africa Center for Strategic Studies reports that the Sahel has ...

This is the story of an independent record label that has been sending the music of the Sahel around the world since 2010. From Agadez, Niamey, Illighadad in Niger and Podor in Senegal, to Nouakchott ...

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 ...

In a world grappling with environmental threats, the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWI) emerged as an African solution to build a sustainable future across the vast Sahel ...

A semi-arid landscape surrounds the Sahel village of Ndiawagne Fall on one end of the Great Green Wall project, in Kebemer, Senegal, Nov. 5, 2021 (AP photo by Leo Correa). Click to share on Twitter ...

Sudan’s ongoing humanitarian crisis after more than a year of civil war shows few signs of abating. And amid the fighting, a significant and troubling development looks set to complicate the conflict ...