Almost 33 million people in the Sahel need lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection services (OCHA)
A complex and interconnected web of crises that affect 32.8 million people in the Sahel region make them vulnerable to…
A call to action: The humanitarian crisis in the Sahel is worsening (Open Global Rights)
Civil society organizations in the Sahel region are advocating for investments in resilience, sustainable development, and improved social cohesion, citing…
Sustained investment in the Sahel region: A humanitarian, peacebuilding and strategic imperative (International Alert)
Millions of people in the Sahel region are in desperate need of immediate humanitarian aid, which exacerbates the region’s already…
Climate Change and Conflict in the Sahel (Council on Foreign Relations)
The Sahelian nations of Africa are expected to be among those most impacted by climate change. Beza Tesfaye contends that…
Exploring the gender-climate-security nexus in conflict-affected borderlands in the Horn of Africa (XCEPT)
The main conclusions and policy implications of research conducted in May and June 2023 on the gendered aspects of the…
Listening To Herders In West Africa And The Sahel: What Future For Pastoralism In The Face Of Insecurity And Its Impacts? (Billital Maroobé Network)
In the Sahel and West Africa, pastoralists are among those most vulnerable to insecurity due to their mobility, yet their…
A Path to Security: Renewing Relationships Within and Beyond the Sahel (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change)
If the Sahel’s security and stability cannot be guaranteed, then neither can those of its neighbors in Africa or elsewhere.…
Climate change, development, and conflict-fragility nexus in the Sahel (Brookings)
The Sahel has once again drawn attention from around the world, more than 40 years after a devastating famine devastated…
Five-fold Increase In Children Uprooted By Violence In West Africa’s Central Sahel (Save the Children)
A Save the Children investigation shows that over the past five years, the number of children in three west African…
For Sahel Stability, U.S. Needs Broader, Coordinated Policy (USIP)
Over the past ten years, insurgencies and coups have expanded throughout Africa’s Sahel, and U.S. policy has claimed to acknowledge…
Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper (IFPRI)
The attendant deepening of food, livelihood, and human insecurities has contributed to a rural exodus of men and women to…
The Sahel Crisis, Governance, and Security
Jonathan MizeroAssociate, Policyinstitute.net The Sahel region, the ‘underbelly’ of the Sahara desert is one of those geo-politically important, yet under-estimated…