July 2023 Monthly Forecast: West Africa and the Sahel (Security Council Report)
In July, the Security Council will hold its biannual briefing on West Africa and the Sahel. The Special Representative and…
Improving Resilience, Stability and Social Cohesion through Employment Opportunities in the Sahel – GCP/GLO/050/GER (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Populations across the five countries are growing rapidly and expected to rise to more than 200 million by 2050. Up…
Hunger grows as Sahel crisis spills into coastal West Africa (World Food Programme)
WFP has developed a subregional strategy to support the governments of the four coastal countries in coping with the spillover…
The BMZ’s Sahel Plus Initiative (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development)
The situation in the Sahel region has a great influence on stability in the northern and central parts of Africa,…
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel)
The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is an opportunity to remember that access to land is a fundamental…
The Sahel (World Health Organization)
The Sahel crisis is one of the fastest growing, yet most forgotten crises in the world. The region is facing…
Report Summary: Unpacking ‘new climate wars’: Actors and Drivers of Conflict in the Sahel (Danish Foreign Policy Society)
The report maps the key actors driving violence in the Mopti region (the region of Mali located in the Sahel),…
Integrated Resilience in the Sahel (World Food Programme)
WFP is boosting resilience at scale in the Sahel by restoring land, building community infrastructure, promoting education, improving nutrition and…
WFP resilience programmes in Sahel act as buffer against instability, build peace and social cohesion – study finds (World Food Programme)
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)’s efforts to build resilience to climate-related and human-made shocks and stressors have been…
Transnational Organized Crime in the Sahel (UNODC)
The Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment – Sahel (TOCTA Sahel) consists of a series of research reports that provide in-depth…
Building Resilience in the Sahel in an Era of Forced Displacement (Wilson Center)
In the Sahel, a growing crisis driven by ongoing violence and devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and…
PROTECTING THE SAHEL AND BEYOND: HOW SAFEGUARDING AGAINST CORRUPTION COULD MAKE THE GREAT GREEN WALL A REALITY (TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL)
Today, the initiative traverses an immense expanse of the African continent with more than thirty countries and multiple organisations involved.…