The Sahel is one of the world’s most vulnerable areas to climate change. Its semiarid climate and reliance on agriculture ...

More automated weather stations are needed in Africa’s Sahel region to improve understanding of how processes driving wind, rain and dust cause the erosion of Sahelian soils, suggests a new ...

Technology and expertise from outside are needed to support traditional knowledge and help people in Africa’s arid Sahel region cope with climate change, according to researchers. A side event at COP ...

Human-caused climate change contributed to an unusually intense and lethal hot spell throughout West Africa’s Sahel region in April, according to a study by World Weather Attribution (WWA), an ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Drug seizures soared in the West African Sahel region according to figures released Friday in a new U.N. report, indicating the conflict-ridden region is becoming an ...

[BENIN] Average temperatures across the Sahel have risen by around one degree Celsius over the past 40 years, according to a study identifying potential climate ‘hotspots’ in the region. The report, ...

Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity and food ...

Jihadist groups and militarised counter-terrorism responses have weakened traditional approaches to resolving climate ...

The Sahel spans Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert. While geographic definitions vary, it generally separates the Sahara in the north of Africa and the tropical savannahs to the south.

And different temperatures in different marine regions also explain why there has been more rain again in the Sahel since the 1990s. “The different marine regions ‘fight it out’, so to speak,” ...

An extreme heatwave in the Sahel region in March and April would not have been as lethal without human-caused climate change, the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group of climate researchers has ...