Mortality risk from drought is extremely high across subtropical Africa in both hemispheres 1.In the Sahel — the transition zone between the tropical climate of the Guinean coast region and the ...

A project, aimed to foster social cohesion through cross-cultural integration, has allowed farmers in Widnaba and Fulbe herders to embrace peaceful coexistence in the Upper East Region. The change is ...

Aerial panning. Black man filling a plastic container on the... Aerial zoom out. Black man filling a plastic container on back of a donkey cart with drinking water from a deep well in the Sahel, ...

The 100th meridian marks a dividing line between moist climates to the east and arid climates to the west. Climatologists now ...

Although the Trump administration's policies are creating a setback in the climate crisis fight, there are signs of progress. Karelia Pallan/Oxfam Despite setbacks on climate change under the Trump ...

A Nassau County man, who spent nearly 30 years with USAID, laments the abrupt shutdown of the agency and shares some of its ...

The word “dust bowl” conjures images of cracked earth, swirling clouds of dry soil, and a haunting silence where life once ...

Abdoulaye Mohamadou, Executive Secretary of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS). The 2013 Dakar Declaration on Irrigation in the Sahel had established an ...

Languages: English. The intensifying drought in Florida poses significant risks to wildfire potential as a lack of precipitation has extended drought conditions. The National Weather Service's ...

But the bloc now faces its most severe crisis yet: the departure of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger—three Sahel states ruled by military juntas—which announced their withdrawal in January 2025. This ...

Drought is a prolonged, abnormally dry period when the amount of available water is insufficient to meet our normal use. Drought is not simply low rainfall; if it was, much of inland Australia would ...