As escalating conflicts draw in a growing number of actors and worsen the Sahel’s humanitarian crisis, a surge in destabilizing migration flows would be all but guaranteed. To avoid this outcome, the ...

Recent soaring temperatures in West Africa and the Sahel, including Mali, have led to hundreds of deaths, with researchers attributing the extreme heat to human-induced climate change. In Mali ...

The Sahel region includes the countries of Burkina Faso ... The region is also on the front lines of the climate crisis, with temperatures increasing at 1.5 times the global average. This is ...

As the very real threat of desertification looms over much of North Africa as a result of extreme climate change and drought, ...

Moroccan authorities have arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel ...

To combat the brewing drought and desertification, the African Union developed the Great Green Wall Initiative in 2007. The Green Wall runs from Senegal in the West to Djibouti in the East and brings ...

I use a hierarchy of climate models and observations for developing fundamental theories and structure my group’s research around an evolving set of “use cases” such as the Sahel drought. A leading ...