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 ...

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

The Green Climate Fund approves $222 million for FAO to launch the SURAGGWA program in eight Sahelian countries. • The initiative focuses on restoring degraded lands and developing value chains for ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Local populations feel the effects of climate change, but new research shows only indirect links to violent extremism. Climate change does not directly lead to more terrorism in the Central Sahel ...

The Sahel’s interconnected challenges of political instability and climate vulnerability create a complex environment for climate action.

The deadly heatwave that hit Africa's Sahel region in early April would not have occurred without "human-induced" climate change, according to a study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group ...