A World Bank-backed study in Niger found that delivering cash transfers before drought-induced lean seasons significantly ...

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

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved over US$120 million in new funding to strengthen climate resilience in Ghana, the ...

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

The Sahel is one of Africa’s most climate-vulnerable areas. The region increasingly experiences extreme weather such as floods and droughts, and ongoing land degradation, depleting the natural ...

Jihadist groups and militarised counter-terrorism responses have weakened traditional approaches to resolving climate disputes.

Violent extremism erodes local climate resilience in the Sahel Fishermen set their nets in wooden boats on the Niger River, the longest river in west Africa, in Bamako, Mali, on March 6, 2025.

Ultimately, it is not just resource scarcity that threatens climate resilience in the Sahel, but the breakdown of the traditional systems that once ensured their equitable management.

The alliance of Sahel states have officially launched the Alliance of Agricultural Seed Producers of the Sahel (APSA-Sahel), ...

The Sahel is one of Africa’s most climate-vulnerable areas. The region increasingly experiences extreme weather such as floods and droughts, and ongoing land degradation, depleting the natural ...

African countries had 14 of the world’s 67 heat extreme events last year, and several had at least three months of hotter ...