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…
Blinken pledges $45 mln to boost coastal West Africa security (Reuters)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday pledged $45 million in additional financing to help fight conflict and bring…
Conflict Prevention in the Sahel: Emerging Practice Across the UN (UNU CPR)
Acknowledging that the UN reforms are still in early phases of rollout, the paper identifies emerging practice in the UN’s…
Building resilience in the Sahel region through job creation for youth (Global Donor Platform For Rural Development)
The Sahel region is nowadays facing many challenges, including insecurity, rising extremism, lacking of economic prospects and decent employment opportunities,…
Governance and provision of basic social services as a means of conflict prevention in West Africa and the Sahel Region (United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa)
This policy paper examines the challenges of conflict prevention and sustaining peace in West Africa and the Sahel. It considers…