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There are large regional variations in access to electricity, ranging from less than 10% electrification in Chad to a high of 70% in Senegal. Most countries are heavily reliant on…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB264180
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Food security and climate change challenges in the Sahel.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB244163
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Sahelian societies are overwhelmingly rural and dependent on agriculture and pastoralism. Farmer and herder lifestyles can complement each other, but climate change and population…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB270010
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The lean season in the Sahel region runs from May to August and is typically the period of greatest food insecurity in an endemically food-insecure area. This year, amid…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB270693
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Affected communities face long-term economic consequences, and their governments -- already resource-poor, and with budgets stretched thin by insecurity, corruption and COVID-19…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB256255
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Sahelian countries are reeling from a combination of insecurity, erratic weather and the impacts of the Ukraine war
WEST AFRICA: Floods will overwhelm governments
Much of Mauritania and Chad are food stressed as well. European Union estimates, counting the five Sahelian countries as well as Nigeria and Cameroon, put the number of people…
With populations growing by 3-4% annually, physical infrastructure requires significant expansion. Mobile telephony has been a major success, but there is much to be done to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB265184
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Chad closed its borders with Sudan and the Central African Republic. Closures have had a direct economic impact in Sahelian border zones, which are often vulnerable to food…