See the $36 billion Great Green Wall in Africa that's an attempt to hold back desertification. ... At first, the plan was to fill a 10-mile-by-4,350-mile area of the Sahel with trees.

Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal ... These issues of gradual desertification—where more of the land slowly becomes desert—affects both nature and people.

The National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) is a central federal government agency with an absolute mandate to ...

But Evans and Burrell found that significant greening was much more extensive than previously acknowledged — and more than three times greater than desertification. It encompassed 41 percent of the ...

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

Arts & Culture | January 2020. Forgotten Desert. A photographer ventures into remote northern Africa for an unprecedented view of one of the world’s most troubled, and least understood, regions ...

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

While the Sahara Desert is an important ecosystem in its own right, its human neighbors in the Sahel would like it to stop encroaching on their environment. [Andrew Millison] took a look at how the… ...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal ... These issues of gradual desertification - where more of the land slowly becomes desert - affects both nature and people.