IMPROVING EDUCATION IN THE SAHEL (The Borgen Project)
While current conditions are grim, the countries of the Sahel are beginning to increase their investments in education and the…
THE GREAT GREEN WALL. An overview and lessons learnt (Danish Institute for International Studies)
This DIIS Working Paper provides a broad overview of the Great Green Wall initiative to draw out lessons learnt from…
What Future for the Western Sahel? The region’s demography and its implications by 2045 (Atlantic Council)
To work their way out of this dilemma, Sahelian governments must shift a significant part of their development focus and…
Sahel Afforestation and Simulated Risks of Heatwaves and Flooding Versus Ecological Revegetation That Combines Planting and Succession (Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection)
Studies simulating the large-scale afforestation of the African Sahel constantly find warning signals of increased risk of extreme temperatures and…
And Then Things Got Complicated: Addressing the Security-Climate-Migration Nexus in the Sahel (Nexus25)
The nexus of climate change, human mobility, and instability demands new forms of multilateral engagement and an end to the…
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…