Africa Renewal is a United Nations digital magazine that covers Africa’s economic, social and political developments. We cover the challenges the continent faces and the solutions to these by ...

The Sahel remains a principal transit point for migrants traveling from sub-Saharan Africa to northern coastal states and on to Europe. Further violence could exponentially increase the rate o ...

His latest album, Funeral for Justice, was released in May. At the other end of the style spectrum, Tidiane Thiam’s Africa Yontii is a delicate instrumental album – his third with Sahel Sounds, with ...

People in the Sahel region and across West Africa, one of the most unequal and impoverished parts of the world, are enduring a severe hunger crisis. Recent rainy seasons have featured long dry spells ...

With Chad's withdrawal of troops and the imminent reduction in French troop strength from the vast Sahel region of West Africa - where jihadist groups continue to stage attack after attack ...