Climate change is the most pressing problem humanity will face this century. Tracking how the climate is actually changing ...

Conflict, drought, skyrocketing prices for food and fuel, and the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have combined to create a massive humanitarian emergency in the region. People in the Sahel ...

Mortality risk from drought is extremely high across subtropical Africa in both hemispheres 1.In the Sahel — the transition zone between the tropical climate of the Guinean coast region and the ...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that potentially life-saving food and nutrition assistance in Central ...

Our new report, Changing climate, changing realities: migration in the Sahel, looks at ways climate change is affecting people’s lives, with case studies from Mali and Sudan. In the Sahel region, ...

I recently traveled to visit our programs in Burkina Faso where the hunger crisis is threatening the lives of children and families in a country already suffering from conflict and drought. This ...

Many of these countries, like Burkina Faso for example, are prone to drought and famine. Some of the poorest least developed countries are in the Sahel zone of Africa, like Mali and Chad.

U.S.A.I.D. Advertisement Heat, drought and floods are growing security ... For instance, as the rains become erratic in the Sahel region of Africa, bordering the Sahara, clashes between farmers ...

Desertification close desertificationThe spread of desert conditions in arid regions due to human activities, drought or climate ... but it is the Sahel region of Africa where the effects are ...

In places like South Sudan and the Sahel, ongoing conflict has hindered families’ access ... Right now, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are facing the third severe drought episode in a decade. West Africa ...

I use a hierarchy of climate models and observations for developing fundamental theories and structure my group’s research around an evolving set of “use cases” such as the Sahel drought. A leading ...