The Sahel is one of the world’s most vulnerable areas to climate change. Its semiarid climate and reliance on agriculture make it particularly susceptible to prolonged droughts, desertification ...

Extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, and floods, have increased in frequency by a factor of two or three ...

Now, I should say that the recent increases in rainfall and extreme rain events that we're seeing in the Sahel is different from what the Sahel dealt with from the 1960s to the 1990s, where the ...

Computer models of the global climate show the Sahel region and southern Africa drying substantially over the course of this century. Sahel rainfall declined sharply in the late 20th Century, with ...

Climate change drives competition over limited resources. Climate shocks are becoming increasingly common in the Central Sahel, where 78 percent of the labor force depends on agriculture and herding.

The Sahel, the vast region that stretches along the Sahara's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea, is on the front line of climate change.

The World Bank’s Pathways to Scale highlights how economic inclusion programs across the Sahel, especially those targeting ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

Climate change does not directly lead to more terrorism in the Central Sahel. Rather, factors associated with climate change appear to be a catalyst for localised conflicts, mainly driven by ...

The Sahel is one of the world’s most vulnerable areas to climate change. Its semiarid climate and reliance on agriculture make it particularly susceptible to prolonged droughts, desertification ...