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 ...

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 (known as the Ferlo), the pastoral population walks over dry, dusty ground with their livestock in search of grazing areas and working borehole ...

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

Officals in Niger say armed men have killed 34 soldiers in western Niger near the tri-state border with Mali and Burkina Faso ...

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

How Africa's Sahel Region Is Becoming a Media Desert April 08, 2023 5:11 AM By Kate Bartlett; FILE - French journalist Olivier Dubois is photographed while reporting in Nioro, Mali, on Sept. 14, 2020.

ABUJA, Nigeria — Jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin, according to a new report ...

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 ...

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.

A POSSE of turban-clad soldiers perched on "ships of the desert" may conjure images of the past, but Mauritania's camelback cavalry play a vital role in the fight against insurgents today.