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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

an al-Qaida’s affiliate in the Sahel. Or so he thought. En route to the interview in Gao, northern Mali, in April 2021, Dubois, a correspondent for Libération and Jeune Afrique publications, was ...

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 ...

RABAT, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Morocco has successfully foiled a "highly dangerous terrorist plot" and arrested 12 suspects, the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation announced on Wednesday.

But the security situation in the Sahel, a vast region on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, has significantly worsened since the juntas took power, analysts say, with a record number of attacks ...