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 ...

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.

There is a wall appearing across the African continent, dividing north and south. But this wall isn’t to keep migrants out, or to keep smuggled goods in check. It is holding back sand.

Desertification in the Sahel – A geographer’s view. Gray Tappan, Geographer, US Geological Survey, EROS (Earth Resources Observation and Science Center) ...

African Development Bank President Akinwumi A. Adesina spoke about the importance of stopping desertification in the Sahel during the United Nations' COP26 global climate conference.

By Misha Hussain DAKAR, Dec 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Around 16 million people are at risk of hunger across Africa's Sahel belt next year due to conflicts and rapid population growth ...

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 ...