Smallholder farmers in West Africa's Sahel face a harsh and worsening climate. Rainfall is erratic, temperatures are rising, ...

The Sahel faces intersecting and compounding challenges of escalating and spreading conflict, climate change, and political turmoil. Across the region, record heat, erratic rainfall, and dwindling ...

Last week’s military takeover in Guinea-Bissau is the latest in a series of coups that has engulfed west Africa in recent years. Almost all have taken place in the Sahel, the semi-arid belt below the ...

Rapid political and security developments in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have spurred the European Union to rethink its approach to the Alliance of Sahel States (AoSS), the EU Special Envoy to the ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Fall has been amazing in the Valley, setting a rainfall record with recent storm systems that moved through Arizona. In all, 6.32″ of rain has been recorded at Sky Harbor ...

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Wet weather that began late last week and continued over the weekend with bursts of heavy rain that added to significant rainfall totals in Los Angeles County The second wave of a mid-November storm ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria, has launched the Scaling-Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall Area ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Mali’s then-President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita walk at the airport in Bamako, Mali, March 2, 2018 (pool photo by Kayhan Ozer via AP). Traditionally, Turkey’s ...

The sea looks the same. So does the sand. But in Egypt, two beach communities not far from each other have decidedly different ideas about fun. People enjoying the beach in Sahel el-Tayeb, a village ...

Fears of major desert locust swarms in the Sahel in 2025 are receding, as authorities in the region continue to monitor breeding sites. The FAO says control measures were carried out by teams in ...

Intelligence agencies in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have said they are preparing to publish the names of senior Nigerian politicians aiding and abetting terrorism in the northwest, counterinsurgency ...