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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
ISSN: 2633-304X
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This year, the floods have coincided with rising living costs and threaten to trigger protests, especially in densely populated southern cities where the president is not popular…
Between insurgency and civil war, mass displacement and flooding, over 10,000 schools in the Sahel have closed, denying over 13 million children a continuous education. The school…
West African protectionism.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB251053
ISSN: 2633-304X
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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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On Niger’s side of the border, by September 27 there were over 5,000 cases across six of the country’s eight regions -- numbers exceeding those of the country’s last major…
The first rounds of presidential elections are scheduled for November 22 for Burkina Faso and December 27 for Niger. Mali’s interim, hybrid civilian-military government is…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB257328
ISSN: 2633-304X
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It will increase rainfall variability and extreme events such as droughts and floods, as well as raising temperatures. These effects may trigger cascading risks to economic…