Conflict, drought, skyrocketing prices for food and fuel, and the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have combined to create a massive humanitarian emergency in the region. People in the Sahel ...
In order to get a better idea of what the future holds for the people of the Sahel, we will need to improve our basic understanding of precipitation and dynamical processes in West Africa.
At some point, I thought of taking my own life instead of watching them die of hunger in front of me.” - Shamsa Amin Ali, 38, Somali refugee in Kenya The Horn of Africa region continues to experience ...
This matters for West Africa and the region but it could also ... The Sahel's problems - drought, corruption, poverty, unemployment and ethnic friction - go far deeper than that.
Across areas of East and Southern Africa, climate change has triggered harsher and more frequent droughts. Right now, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are facing the third severe drought episode in a ...