Time to Rethink Development Assistance in the Sahel (American Diplomacy)
Sahelian citizens are resilient from early childhood for living under harsh geographical conditions. However, education as well as health infrastructure…
Food System Transformations in the Sahel and West Africa. Implications for people and policies (OECD)
Food security on a national and regional level, environmental sustainability with a look at climate change, issues in urbanisation, demographic…
Africa is creating its own Great Wall – and it’s green (World Economic Forum)
A 8,000-kilometer strip of savanna in the southern part of the Sahara is set to create 10 million jobs and…
The fast response of Sahel precipitation to climate change allows effective mitigation action (NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science)
Precipitation over the center of the Sahel region is projected to increase in the short and intermediate term, while the…
It Is Time to Rethink U.S. Strategy in the Sahel (United States Institute of Peace)
To reach the development goals, the situation needs to be improved with regard to economic opportunities, marginalization of vulnerable communities…
Climate-Related Security Risks and Peacebuilding in Mali (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
Extremism and crime are worsened by climate change, leading up to risks with regard to peace and security in the…
Land resources opportunities for a growing prosperity in the Sahel (Science Direct)
Based on the equitable usage of natural resources growth and prosperity can be fostered in the Sahel, so that a…
De nombreuses mains sur un éléphant. Comment améliorer la rélilience des communautés face à la radicalisation vers l’extrémisme violent ? (Commission européenne, UNICRI)
La consolidation de la paix nécessite un tissu social solide. Les griefs doivent être traités par les responsables, les autorités…
Many hands on an elephant. What enhances community resilience to radicalisation into violent extremism? Findings from the project on countering radicalization and violent extremism in the regions of Sahel and Maghreb (European Commission, UNICRI)
On the long run, peace building requires robust social tissue. Grievances need to be reacted to, by officials, traditional authorites…
Climate Change and Conflict in the Sahel (ClimateLinks/ USAID)
Religiously-motivated violence and networks animated by crime risks growing in Mali. At the intersection of climate change and conflict, complex…
Lake Chad: Another Protracted Crisis in the Sahel or a Regional Exception? (Istituto Affari Internazionali/IAI)
Bernardo Venturi and Luca Barana write in this paper that the intersection of conflict and climate change is not the…