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 ...

With assistance from the World Food Program, people in Niger and all throughout the Sahel have been working ... we previously covered the Great Green Wall at a more macro level.

Activists in Mali's Zamblara forest are working with communities to plant trees as part of the Great Green Wall initiative, ...

Even some of her fellow tree-planters that day were to blame. Salimata Diabate, who took part in the ceremony last month, ...

As a result, only 4% of the Great Green Wall’s original goal has been met ... Mali is also among several countries in the Sahel that have experienced record-breaking floods this year, with ...

After years of serving as Mali's minister of the environment, Aida M'bo now spends her time planting trees in a fight to protect the environment ...

Fortunately, a new initiative is being developed in the Sahel region of the continent. In many respects, it already promises to introduce sustainable and economic growth. The Great Green Wall (GGW) ...

What does the wave of coups in the Sahel mean for its people? Since 2020, Central and West Africa have faced more than 10 coup attempts. Meanwhile, global powers are shifting, as Russia eclipses ...