The year 2023 was the year Millet was declared by none other body than the world-renowned United Nations as the Crop of the ...

NATO's intervention in Libya in 2011 is considered one of the high points in the expansion of trafficking in the Sahel. Fighters from West and Central Africa, serving in Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ...

Launched by the African Union in 2007, the Great Green Wall (GGW) aims to combat desertification, drought and land ...

Ghana shares a 600 km (372 mile) border with Burkina Faso, the country at the heart of an insurgency that has killed ...

By David Akana It is always puzzling to witness the immense hype surrounding COPs (conferences of the parties to ...

For decades, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have faced instability, terrorism, poverty and resource exploitation. Despite expelling French troops post-coups, progress is slow. Eddy Micah Jr ...

In recent times, as the military knocked off one civilian regime after another across the Sahel, observers were ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and ...

Today, more than ever, we must turn our attention to pastoralism across the Sahel and West Africa. Stretching from Mauritania and Senegal on the Atlantic coast to the Nile Valley in Sudan, the Sahel ...

As Tuareg rock group Etran de l’Aïr release their new album, we take a look at their record label, the US-based Sahel Sounds ...

Displaced persons and refugees cross Africa's Sahel and lake chad region are set to benefit from a relief fund raised through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief).

The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) is looking for an inspiring and experienced Regional Office Director to lead our operations in Dakar and guide our human security work across West Africa and ...

The map highlights the Nigerian city of Kano, in the Sahel region of Africa. It also locates Abuja, the capital, in the middle of the country, as well as the southwestern city of Lagos.