Explore the urgent issue of desertification in Africa's Sahel region and discover how the ambitious 'Great Green Wall' project is making a remarkable difference. Learn how drought, food insecurity, ...

Travel across Africa’s Sahel, where Muslims and Christians unite to fight desertification. Gulnaz Khan travels across Africa’s Sahel, where desertification threatens entire communities. Muslims and ...

West Africa's cattle herders are being stripped of their animals by extremist-linked armed groups as the deadly conflict in ...

Desertification made worse by climate change is outpacing a U.N.-backed project to protect millions of people in Africa’s Sahel region. Few climate adaption projects can match the sheer ambition — or ...

A semi-arid landscape surrounds the Sahel village of Ndiawagne Fall on one end of the Great Green Wall project, in Kebemer, Senegal, Nov. 5, 2021 (AP photo by Leo Correa). Click to share on Twitter ...

(KXAN) — Back in the 1970s and 80s, the area just south of the Saharan Desert, known as the Sahel, began to turn barren with worsening drought. The Sahel was known as a fertile stretch of land before ...

In a world grappling with environmental threats, the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWI) emerged as an African solution to build a sustainable future across the vast Sahel ...

The Sahara Desert has expanded by approximately ten percent since 1920, according to comprehensive research analyzing rainfall data across Africa from 1920 to 2013. This expansion varies significantly ...

The time for Desert to Power to provide electricity for all in the Sahel is now,” he urged. G5 Sahel heads of state acknowledged that limited energy access and a dependence on fossil fuels underscores ...

French producer of acacia gum Alland & Robert has established a company foundation to help prevent desertification in Africa. “Our sole objective is to support African communities and fight the ...

The National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) has appealed to the federal government to support its 50 million date ...