Life in the Sahel, a semi-arid region of Africa stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, is at threat from persistent degradation of land as the increasing population inflicts ever-greater ...

G5 Sahel heads of state at a Summit on Friday in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, gave strong support to Desert to Power, an Africa Development Bank (https://www. Read more.

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has welcomed $150 million investment in its Desert to Power G5 Financing Facility from the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The GCF approved the amount at its 30 ...

A photographer ventures into remote northern Africa for an unprecedented view of one of the world’s most troubled, and least understood, regions Photographs by Philippe Dudouit / Contact Press Images; ...

(KXAN) — Back in the 1970s and 80s, the area just south of the Saharan Desert, known as the Sahel, began to turn barren with worsening drought. The Sahel was known as a fertile stretch of land before ...

Travel across Africa’s Sahel, where Muslims and Christians unite to fight desertification. Gulnaz Khan travels across Africa’s Sahel, where desertification threatens entire communities. Muslims and ...

The African Development Bank last year disclosed a plan to install 10 GW of solar in the deserts of the Sahel. A recent summit held in Burkina Faso may have brought the ambitious project a step closer ...

Mort Rosenblum brilliantly captures the victim status of two deserts, Sonoran and Sahel, assaulted by denial and neglect, but ...

Sahel-based Salafi-jihadi groups including al Qaeda and the Islamic State coordinate and cooperate across organizational divides united by common objectives, shared ...

A relentless giant is stirring in North Africa. The Sahara Desert, already the size of the continental United States, grows ...

The battle for control of the Sahel is the second in our series analysing Africa’s 2011 political flashpoints in 2011. Osama Bin Laden’s acceptance in his 27 October audio message of kidnapping as a ...

The Sahara Desert has expanded by approximately ten percent since 1920, according to comprehensive research analyzing rainfall data across Africa from 1920 to 2013. This expansion varies significantly ...