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Africa Renewal

Soldiers from Burkina Faso during a military operation along the border with Mali and Niger.

Peace and Security

Terrorism intensifying across Africa, exploiting instability and conflict

UN News

Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Mahamadou Issoufou.

UN Affairs

High-level independent panel on security and development in crisis-torn Sahel region launched at UN

UN News

Seedlings laid out ready for planting in land prepared by the Delfino plough in Djibo, Burkina Faso.

Climate Change

Bringing degraded African land back to life

How combining new technology and traditional knowledge harvests rain and restores land

By FAO

Secretary General welcomes release of school boys.

Peace and Security

The Secretary-General welcomes the release of some of the abducted children in Nigeria

Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on Nigeria

Africa Renewal

By Africa Renewal

The Great Green Wall initiative created close to 120 000 farming jobs.

Conservation

Africa's Great Green Wall: close to 18 million hectares of land restored

Annual restoration of 8.2 million hectares and US$4.3 billion may be needed to achieve the planned 100 million hectares by 2030.

Ms. Brema trains women in her village to become electricians.

coronavirus

Sahel project helps women raise themselves, their communities from poverty

By 51吃瓜 Population Fund

Malian refugees seek shelter in Télemsès, Niger, after violence has escalated in the Sahel region.

coronavirus

Amid COVID-19 and climate change, UNHCR appeals for $186 million for Sahel refugee and displacement crisis

UN News

Transhumant herder and families accounts for an estimated 20 per cent of the total population in West and Central Africa, are forced to stop their seasonal migration as a result of border closures.

coronavirus

Responding to the pandemic amid multi-layered crises in the Sahel: “Stop the virus, not the people”

By IOM

A displaced family from a village in Mali was relocated to a former school.

Peace and Security

Protect civilians in the Sahel and Lake Chad regions, urges UN refugee agency

UN News

A displaced family from a village in Mali was relocated to a former school.

Peace and Security

Protect civilians in the Sahel and Lake Chad regions, urges UN refugee agency

UN News

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi meets internally displaced people in Burkina Faso’s Centre-North region.

Humanitarian Aid

Africa’s Sahel: Act now before the crisis ‘becomes unmanageable’, urges Grandi

UN News

Implementing peace deal only path for stabilization in Mali: UN peacekeeping chief

Peace and Security

Implementing peace deal only path for stabilization in Mali: UN peacekeeping chief

UN News

Citizens fetching water from a community borehole in Chad. Photo: UNDP / Jean D. Hakuzimana

Sahel

Strengthening bonds in the Sahel

Confronting insecurity, joblessness, injustice and inequity could transform the region

By Ernest Harsch

News

Teacher Educators in Sahel countries Met for Peace-building and PVE in Dakar

A woman walks through a village in Chad. Photo: Naomi Frerotte

Sahel

Africa’s Sahel must be a top priority for UN peacebuilding efforts, says commission

UN News

Ibrahim Thiaw, UN Secretary-General’s special adviser for the Sahel

Sahel

Turning dry Sahel into land of opportunity

— Ibrahim Thiaw

By Minielle Baro

Photo: FAO/Sonia Nguyen

News

Funding boost for Sahel’s drought-stricken farmers and herders

UN Photo/Marco Dormino UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed by General Didier Dacko, G5 Sahel Joint Force Commander and other Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) officials, as he arrives at the G5 Sahel Joint Force Headquarters in Mopti, Mali.

News

Mali: ‘G5’ countries need support fighting terrorism in Sahel region

UN News

Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel Toby Lanzer. UN Photo/Evan Schneider

News

Senior UN relief official warns of demographic challenges and growing humanitarian needs in the Sahel

UN News

Too many guns - a fighter with the Coalition of Azawad Movements, the main rebel coalition in northern Mali. Photo: UN Photo/Marco Dormino/Flikr

News

Briefing: The new Jihadist strategy in the Sahel

News

UN seeks $2 billion in international aid for Africa’s Sahel region

UN News

Sahel

The Sahel: One region, many crises

By André-Michel Essoungou

Cover Story

A messenger of peace and development goes to the Sahel

For his trip to the Sahel, Ban Ki-moon adopted as his motto an African saying: “One hand cannot tie a bundle.” His guests agreed.

By André-Michel Essoungou

News

UN, World Bank boost support for women’s health, girls’ education in Africa’s Sahel

UN News

News

On UN-led visit to the Sahel region, global leaders pledge over $8 billion

UN News

News

In Sahel, battle against child malnutrition continues

Malnutrition among children under age five in the Sahel is expected to rise again this year

In Africa’s Sahel region, over 1 million children under age 5 are at risk of dying of nutrition-related illnesses

Audio

Urgent global action urged to stop hunger in Sahel

Window of opportunity to save people from hunger narrowing by the day

Mother feeds her child in Niger

Web Feature

Sahel: surviving the lean season

By André-Michel Essoungou