Arts & Culture | January 2020. Forgotten Desert. A photographer ventures into remote northern Africa for an unprecedented view of one of the world’s most troubled, and least understood, regions ...

Since 2011, many Sahel strategies have been adopted in collaboration with various partners to respond to the region’s challenges. Despite these efforts, the G5 countries face not only ongoing security ...

In the past decade, five journalists have been killed and six have gone missing in the Sahel, a vast, semiarid region of western and north-central Africa that stretches along the Sahara desert's ...

Areas surrounding Sahara desert — which decades ago were covered with forests, crops and grasslands — can be restored, agriculture experts said. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

The Sahel security conference, the first of its kind, was decided months ago but convenes only days after the toppling of the 42-year-old Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi by Western-backed rebels.

Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal (known as the Ferlo), the pastoral population walks over dry, dusty ground with their livestock in search of grazing areas and working borehole ...