Assessing the Environmental Suitability for Transhumance in Support of Conflict Prevention in the Sahel (MDPI)
A clear difference in environmental suitability between the origin and destination areas of herders was found in the dry season,…
Climate change, development, and conflict-fragility nexus in the Sahel (Brookings)
More than 40 years after a catastrophic famine struck the region, the Sahel has once again become the focus of…
Effects of Land Cover Changes on Compound Extremes over West Africa Using the Regional Climate Model RegCM4 (MDPI)
When comparing both runs, the impact of the reforestation was to decrease (increase) the compound extreme dry/warm (wet/warm) mode over…
State, Borders and Territory in the Sahel: The Case of the G5 Sahel (Policy Center for the New South)
“This Policy Brief highlights the depths of the Sahel crisis. Some aspects of the crisis, such as extremist violence, migration,…
Sahel: Moving beyond military containment policy report (Atlantic Council)
“It has been almost ten years since the beginning of the security crisis in the Sahel. In the throes of…
Future rainfall over Sahel and Sahara (RealClimate)
“The African rainfall deficit appears to be widespread: the Cairo Review reports severe droughts that have been experienced across the…
Insecurity drives more Burkinabe into exile, further straining fragile Sahel region (UNHCR)
“The Sahel is also on the front lines of the climate crisis, with temperatures increasing at 1.5 times the global…
Engaging Youth As Mediators: A Guide For Practitioners (Search for Common Ground)
“In addition to capacity support directly targeting mediation skills, support to develop conflict analyses can also be very important. Effective…
Central Sahel: Improve children’s wellbeing and learning – Increasing psychosocial support in schools (UN OCHA)
“The humanitarian impact of this crisis is worrisome with a number of displaced people multiplied by 10, growing from 213,000…
Ending the everyday emergency: Resilience and children in the Sahel (Save the Children)
“More than 1 million children face severe and life-threatening malnutrition in the Sahel region of West Africa in 2012. ‘Ending…
Building Resilience in the Sahel (UNICEF)
“The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 was adopted at the Third UN World Conference in Sendai, Japan, on…
How not to lose the Sahel: Community perspectives on insecurity and international interventions in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso (Saferworld)
“Years of international military interventions have caused the Sahel to be more unstable and insecure now than a decade ago.…