Despite a commitment to good governance, the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWI) has experienced critical implementation and coordination challenges. For the initiative to ...

The blueprint for the Great Green Wall is nothing if not ambitious. Quite Canute-like, it would seem. The aim is to plant a forest of trees about 15km wide, snaking some 7 775km from Senegal on the ...

To bridge this knowledge and funding gaps, regional organizations such as the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS), a Tunisia-based body with 34 African and non-African member states, have stepped in.

The emergency is not lost on Philippe Dudouit, a 42-year-old Swiss photojournalist who has lived among diverse groups of people in the rural Sahara-Sahel off and on since 2008. Indeed, he has ...

World leaders and heads of major international agencies pledged Wednesday $4 billion over the next five years to step up implementation of the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative ...

MEDays maps new Sahel strategy. ... Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz said that the security challenges currently faced by North Africa and the Sahel-Sahara were having a damaging impact on ...

Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara Through May 10 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan; 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org . Holland Cotter is the co-chief art critic.