The Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, has reaffirmed the country's commitment to the Great Green Wall initiative, a flagship programme of the African Union. The initiative, according to t ...

Aridity is silently spreading through many of the world’s cocoa-producing regions. There are steps we can take to save them.

Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

In the heart of Mali's arid Sahel region, Rokiatou Traoré is on ... Skip next section More on Nature and Environment from Africa ...

The Sahel (Photo Credit ... spanning from Senegal to Eritrea and nestled between the Sahara Desert to the north and the African tropics to the south, has had its multifaceted challenges greatly ...

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

It was the latest in a worsening security situation, not just in Chad but in many countries across West Africa and the Sahel – a semi-arid region south of the Sahara desert. China has extensive ...

BAMAKO, Mali — West Africa's regional bloc ... alliance known as the Alliance of Sahel States, or AES, named after the vast southern fringe of the Sahara Desert region. The three severed ...