West and Central Africa — Liptako Gourma and Central Sahel Situation Monthly Dashboard 38 (June 2023) (IOM UN Migration)
The Central Sahel area, and in particular the Liptako Gourma region, which borders Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, is affected…
SIPRI – Humanitarian Protection in the Liptako-Gourma Region: Local Protection Mechanisms and Humanitarian Response (Sahel Coalition)
As part of the research programme ‘Humanitarian Protection in the Liptako-Gourma region’, this is the second of two reports seeking…
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…
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,…
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),…
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…
Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: North Africa and Sahel (Adelphi)
This paper endeavours to provide a concise overview of peer-reviewed literature on the links between climate change and conflict in…
Trans-border Mobility and Security in the Sahel: Exploring the Dynamics of Forced Migration and Population Displacements in Burkina Faso and Mali (Springer)
Using qualitative methods and documentary evidence, the paper found that poor governance, lack of state-building measures, and socio-economic exclusion of…
Watchlist Insight: Climate and Humanitarian Crisis in the Central Sahel (International Rescue Committee)
This report examines how political decisions dating from the French colonial rule through the early 2000s have marginalised peripheral areas…
Sahel Crisis (R4Sahel)
These figures represent the number of refugees, asylum-seekers, refugee returnees, internally displaced people (IDP) and IDP returnees, as reported either…