Audio and Key Insights: sahara-sahel.org, 3 May 2026
(sahara-sahel.org) – The Sahel is currently facing a compounding crisis where a security escalation in Mali, but more generally political…
Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in the Sahel : A Regional Brief Covering Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger (World Bank)
This brief looks at the circumstances of around 13 million teenage girls in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger who…
The multi-aligned Sahel: Reframing the EU’s role in a crowded region (EU Institute for Security Studies)
Diverse alliances under the umbrella of multipolarity have been encouraged by the Central Sahel’s decline in pro-Western sentiment and strategic…
Adaptive Social Protection and Human Capital (World Bank)
Through integrated social protection mechanisms in climate-vulnerable environments, the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program (SASPP) thematic overview describes strategic measures…
Sahel Agroecology Training Targets Youth Amid High Unemployment, Food Risk (Ecofin Agency)
With a rigorous 50/50 gender balance, the Sahel Opportunities II project (2025–2028) intends to teach 4,175 young people and farmers…
Bridging the Maghreb-Sahel Divide in Policy and Research: Take-aways from the MECAM Policy Talk 2025 (Hypotheses)
The frequently disregarded links between the Maghreb and Sahel regions were the main topic of the Policy Talk. The conversation…
Regional Conference on Information Integrity in West Africa and the Sahel (UNESCO)
The region’s ability to maintain information integrity is hampered by a number of structural issues, including widespread disparities in internet…
Supporting Safe Education in the Central Sahel (Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack)
Education in the Central Sahel—Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali—is being seriously disrupted by severe violence and humanitarian problems that have…
Sahel Education White Paper: The State of Education in the Sahel (World Bank)
A better long-term future for the Sahel area depends on universal access to high-quality education. Education boosts wages and employability,…
Project 21 – Consider the socio-economic dimension of protection: Decision-making support bulletin for the Central Sahel | Burkina Faso, Mali, Western Niger (October 2024) (UNHCR via reliefweb)
One in two respondents in the 102 provinces that Project 21 covers believe that material and economic hardship raises the…
Chad is on the road to building the capacity of its junior cycle teachers (UNESCO)
UNESCO-IBE is helping Chad undergo a significant educational system reform as part of its initiative to enhance education in the…
COP 29: Climate education in West Africa and the Sahel: One of the world’s climate hotspots, on the frontline on climate and environmental education (UNESCO)
A recently created Regional Declaration on Strengthening Climate Change Education in West Africa was unveiled at COP 28 in Dubai,…