The Sahel’s plight is a powerful lesson for the global community. The interconnectedness of climate change, state fragility ...

The link between climate change and conflict is increasingly at the forefront of security and development discussions. One ...

Smallholder farmers in West Africa's Sahel face a harsh and worsening climate. Rainfall is erratic, temperatures are rising, soils are degrading, and droughts have become more frequent. In Mali and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sahel faces intersecting and compounding challenges of escalating and spreading conflict, climate change, and political turmoil. Across the region, record heat, erratic rainfall, and dwindling ...

Lateef Olalekan Bello works as a Project Researcher at the University of Tokyo and was a former Research Fellow at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria, and the Sahel ...