In late June, Pasatiempo caught up with Vieux Farka Touré, a Mali (West African) musician whose father is the late Ali Farka ...

The World Bank’s Pathways to Scale highlights how economic inclusion programs across the Sahel, especially those targeting ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

Morocco’s $1.3bn Atlantic Initiative aims to link Sahel nations to the ocean via Western Sahara, despite coups, rivalries, ...

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

Armed groups from across Nigeria and from neighbouring countries in the Sahel are believed to be behind many attacks. Raids ...

It is instructive to note that the Great Green Wall initiative is a pan-African effort to restore Africa’s degraded landscapes and combat desertification across the Sahel region. The effects and ...

The International Criminal Court is reviewing a confidential legal report asserting that the Russia-linked Wagner group has committed war crimes by spreading images of apparent atrocities in ...

The G5 Sahel region: a Desert Flower? Fundamental development interventions, not militarised approaches, can improve the region’s dire long-term prospects.

The China-Africa Green Technology Park is a key demonstration project supporting Africa's Great Green Wall Initiative, launched in 2007 to create a 7,000-km ecological barrier across northern ...

Africa's Great Green Wall program involves 11 countries across the Sahel region that have been affected by desertification for decades.

Africa's Sahel region accounts for more than half of terror-related killings, a new reports says.