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Julia McQuaid on the Complex Link Between Water and Conflict in the Middle...
Does global water stress matter for U.S. national security, and if so, how? That’s a major focus of the next CNA Military Advisory Board report, says Julia McQuaid of the CNA Corporation in this week’s...
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Fertile Ground? Climate Change and Jihadism in Mali
The epicenter of violence in the unstable country of Mali has historically been in the north, a contested region from where Touareg separatist and jihadist armed groups launched an insurgency against...
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Christophe Angely on Overcoming Pessimism for the Sahel
The Sahel region of Africa is a wide band that marks the transition from the Sahara Desert in the north to the wetter, sub-tropical regions in the south. The Sahelian countries have some of the most...
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The Melting Arctic Could Spur Even More Migration in the Sahel, But There Are...
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that melting in Greenland could change ocean currents and cause unprecedented drought in Africa’s Sahel region, the...
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The New Slave Trade: Migration, Trafficking, and Terrorists in Libya
While dismayed Americans watched the “zero tolerance” policy of family separation unfolding at the Mexican border, across the Atlantic, another shocking migration crisis continues to fester. Behind the...
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Urban Elites’ Livestock Exacerbate Herder-Farmer Tensions in Africa’s...
In recent years, conflict between herders and farmers for access to increasingly scarce natural resources in Africa’s Sudano-Sahel has escalated. While the problems fueling these tensions are both...
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Emulating Botswana’s Approach to Reproductive Health Services Could Speed...
The Western Sahel region—a cluster of arid, low-income countries stretching from Senegal, on Africa’s Atlantic coast, inland to Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Chad—is home to the world’s...
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Investing in Girls and Women Could Set Stage for Peace, Development in Sahel
The coronavirus pandemic has people throughout the world pondering how humankind should respond to a public health crisis. While individual countries are managing the crisis with varying degrees of...
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Why We Need a Climate Security Course-Correction for Stability in the Sahel
This article originally appeared on Climate Diplomacy.Not only is the Sahel highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, but it is also one of the regions where climate change is most likely to...
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Building Resilience in the Sahel in an Era of Forced Displacement
“The impacts of displacement present major challenges at every level of decision-making, but the opportunities for interventions that build resilience to climate change, foster social cohesion, and...
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Conflict in the Sahel Likely to Worsen as Climate Change Impacts Increase
Currently there isn’t a lot of good news coming out of the Sahel, the area in Africa that borders the Saharan desert to the north, the Sudanian Savannah to the south, and stretches across the...
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Youthful Demographic Conditions Could Push the Sahel to an “Afghanistan Moment”
The countries of the Western Sahel find themselves in the tightening grip of a set of mutually reinforcing crises. These include deepening seasonal food insecurity and surges of food-aid dependency,...
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New Security Brief | Converging Risks: Demographic Trends, Gender Inequity,...
Security conditions in the Sahel are rapidly deteriorating. Since 2016, the region has witnessed a 16-fold increase in terrorist attacks. In Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, 10.5...
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What’s in a Name? Making the Case for the Sahel Conflict as “Eco-violence”
The Sahel region of Africa is a semi-arid, arc-shaped landmass that stretches 3,860 kilometres from Senegal across portions of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and even Sudan. It is also the...
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Arms Are Not Enough: Solutions for the Sahel Must Consider Climate
On February 25, Nigeria will begin voting for its new president in one of the most tightly fought elections in decades. And the most likely winner has already set down a marker in his campaign. “You...
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