Conflict, drought, skyrocketing prices for food and fuel, and the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have combined to create a massive humanitarian emergency in the region. People in the Sahel ...

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 ...

The communities around Lake Chad have always lived by its water rhythms. Now, as climate change impacts intensify, they must ...

Our new report, Changing climate, changing realities: migration in the Sahel, looks at ways climate change is affecting people’s lives, with case studies from Mali and Sudan. In the Sahel region, ...

Terrorism in the Sahel has increased significantly, with deaths rising nearly tenfold since 2019, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2025, confirming the region’s reputation as the epicentre of ...

I use a hierarchy of climate models and observations for developing fundamental theories and structure my group’s research around an evolving set of “use cases” such as the Sahel drought. A leading ...