In early February 2022, the World Food Programme announced that 13 million people in the Horn of Africa faced severe hunger as drought gripped the region. Similar concerns have been raised for several ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 11 million people are still facing hunger in Africa’s Sahel region and urgent international aid is needed, a top U.N. humanitarian official said Tuesday. Robert Piper, ...

The crisis stretches across eight nations, including Gambia and Chad. May 29, 2012 — -- According to the United Nations, the Sahel region of West Africa, which stretches across eight countries ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ARC Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd) will pay US $25 million in drought insurance claims to three countries in the Sahel this month.

For the third time in the past decade, drought has returned to the arid, western shoulder of Africa, bringing hunger to millions. Aid agencies are warning that if action is not taken now, the region ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With an El Niño event predicted to hit the Horn of Africa and the Sahel starting in December, potentially bringing worsening droughts and floods, researchers are ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The recent decades-long drought that killed 100,000 people in Africa's Sahel may be a small foretaste of monstrous "megadroughts" that could grip the region as global climate ...

Introduction to the hydrologic cycle and drought -- Global hydroclimatology -- Drought in the climate system -- Drought and hydroclimate variability in the Holocene -- Climate change and drought -- ...

Sahel summertime precipitation declined from the 1950s to 1970s and recovered from the 1970s to 2000s. Anthropogenic aerosol contributions to this evolution are typically attributed to ...