Mali and Nigeria, two of the countries in the Sahel region of west Africa, are separated by approximately 1,000 kilometres, with the Niger Republic between them. They differ in population size and ...

Violence, displacement and hunger are deepening across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger as the UN warns the Central Sahel crisis ...

Data lays bare the extent and geographical spread of attacks in Africa’s most populous country ...

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 ...

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Sahel region's ability to produce food is not keeping pace with its growing population, and global warming will only exacerbate the imbalance, according to a ...