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 ...

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

Forests are nature’s groceries, providing a direct source of vegetables, fruits, seeds, roots, tubers, mushrooms, honey, ...

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.

The effects of climate change are evident all around us, but certain places are feeling the heat more than others. These ...

Its new report says that in this semi-arid area to the south of the Sahara Desert 3,885 people out of a worldwide total of 7,555 died. The GTI report adds that while the global figure has declined ...

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 ...

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.

The presence of Russian mercenaries in Africa was once hailed as a success story, but recently the pressure on them has increased. A new report offers strategies to counter Russian influence.

Africa’s mega-project to help combat climate change, desertification, and land degradation has seen positive strides. The project will see a 4,722-mile green wall that will aim to restore 100 ...