To combat the brewing drought and desertification, the African Union developed the Great Green Wall Initiative in 2007. The ...

Many countries around the world suffer from the problems caused by desertification but it is the Sahel region of Africa where the effects are greatest. The Sahel is a narrow belt of land which ...

The Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, has reaffirmed the country's commitment to the Great Green Wall initiative, a flagship programme of the African Union. The initiative, according to t ...

EU is interested in working with Türkiye and countries of the region in order to forge broad international coalition that can ...

Aridity is silently spreading through many of the world’s cocoa-producing regions. There are steps we can take to save them.

Since 1920, the Sahara has grown by about 10%, moving south into the Sahel. The Sahara’s edge is now in places like Mali, where 65% of the land is desert or semi-desert. It’s growing 48 ...

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 ...

Now, on the margins of the G5 Sahel summit in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, regional leaders have voiced support for the Desert to Power initiative. The heads of state said they will seek to attract ...

Substantive funds for climate action are (meant to be) channelled through the Great Green Wall Initiative which tackles challenges of desertification, land degradation and climate change in the Sahel ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso ...