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Trees illegally cut down for firewood in the Zamay forest reserve by Nigerian refugees.

Cut down once again: Uncontrolled logging puts new Sahel reforestation projects at risk

Yannick Kenné | Sabré Na-Ideyam | Georges Messi 6 Oct 2023
Women picking the nutritionally rich baobab fruits in Ghana.

Progress is slow on Africa’s Great Green Wall, but some bright spots bloom

Spoorthy Raman 3 Aug 2023
Trees in the plains of Sahel.

Scientists map nearly 10 billion trees, stored carbon, in Africa’s drylands

John Cannon 10 Mar 2023

As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)

Robert Muggah; Peter Schmidt and Giovanna Kuele 28 Mar 2022
In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021

Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances

Patrick Worms 10 Aug 2020

Climate tipping point ecosystem collapses may come faster than thought: Studies

Shanna Hanbury 11 May 2020

$85 million initiative to scale up agroforestry in Africa announced

Erik Hoffner 24 Oct 2019

Why keep Africa’s dryland forests alive?

Sophie Mbugua 12 Sep 2018

Wildlife decimated by the surge in conflicts in the Sahara and the Sahel

Mongabay.com 9 May 2018

How the Sahara keeps the Amazon rainforest going

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2015

20 million people face hunger in Africa’s Sahel region

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2014

Nearly a million people face food crisis in Niger

Jeremy Hance 13 May 2013

Food prices rise as food aid needed in Middle East and Africa

Jeremy Hance 4 Oct 2012

As U.S. sees record heat, extreme weather pummels 4 continents

Jeremy Hance 10 Jul 2012

Alarm rising over food crisis in Sahel region

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2012

The vanishing Niger River imperils tourism and livelihoods in the desert

Linda Leila Diatta 4 Jun 2012

‘The real Hunger Games’: a million children at risk as Sahel region suffers punishing drought

Jeremy Hance 9 May 2012

15 million facing food shortages in Africa’s Sahel region

Jeremy Hance 29 Mar 2012

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