While the Sahara Desert is an important ecosystem in its own right, its human neighbors in the Sahel would like it to stop encroaching on their environment. [Andrew Millison] took a look at how ...

Residents of Mali's northern town of Tinzaouaten, caught in the crossfire of a fierce July battle between Tuareg rebels and ...

Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of unprecedented floods that devastated their economy already crippled by ...

In his late 60s, Abdi Ahmed gears up the strength for a new day as a nomad moving around with his cattle and 19 children. The ...

Northern regions, being closer to the Sahel, generally experience less precipitation, with annual totals ranging from 500-1000 mm. Humidity levels during the rainy season in Nigeria can be oppressive, ...

In today’s news, police have reportedly arrested two men for the murder of underworld figure Mark Lifman, Gauteng government employees allegedly claimed overtime and exorbitant travel costs ...

Doing so would secure it critical supplies of arms, fuel and mercenaries from its allies and business partners in the wider Sahel region ... scarce. The rainy season is helping to spread cholera ...

An air of pessimism looms as COP29 continues through November 24, but this is no time for despair. We’ve been here before. In ...

In April 2024, temperatures in Mali rose above 48C during an extreme heatwave across the Sahel ... season on record in 2023. Climate change more than doubled the likelihood of the extreme "fire ...

This is traditionally told as a straightforward story of human progress. After humans made the switch, population growth ...