For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. The ISSP follows the hard line of ...

This battle can be won': desert expert reveals how China's technology, funding and strategies aid ambitious environmental ...

An ambitious and bold project looks to help desertification in Africa and to combat African nations from being swallowed up ...

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.

As long as terrorist groups exploit illicit trade networks, the risk of their expansion into North Africa and Europe remains ...

SALE, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan authorities this month arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel, a region south of the Sahara Desert, officials ...

After years of delays due to insufficient funding and prevailing conflicts, the Great Green Wall in the Sahel, aimed at preventing desertification, gained momentum with an accelerator program ...

The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all ...

The Sahel is this semi-arid region just north ... First, a climate crisis, with desertification and flooding, and it's also gripped by political crises with several military coups.

At a seminar in Beijing, Lei Jiaqiang, a leading desertification expert with the ... this as a diplomatic and economic opportunity. The Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching from Senegal to Djibouti ...