Armed conflicts, fast-growing populations, extreme poverty, food insecurity, climate change, and epidemics are still raging in the Sahel region, menacing the lives of populations already living on the edge of disaster. Annually, millions of people continue to need urgent help, nearly half of ...
The Bank has made the Sahel region a top priority for investment and mobilization of new sources of financing to advance Africa’s climate opportunities. This is the case of the “Desert to Power” program to create the world’s largest solar energy zone. The program will provide el...
The Sahel region of West Africa is a transition zone between equatorial climate and vegetation to the south, and desert to the north. The climatology of the region is dominated by dry conditions for most of the year, with a single peak in rainfall during boreal summer. The seasonal rainfall...
(redirected fromSahel Africa) Encyclopedia Sa·hel (sə-hāl′, -hēl′) A semiarid region of north-central Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Since the 1960s it has been afflicted by prolonged periods of extensive drought. [Arabicsāḥil,coast, shore (of the Sahara); seeSwahili.] ...
Modeling bio-geophysical feedback in the African and Indian monsoon region An asynchronously coupled global atmosphere-biome model is used to assess the dynamics of deserts and drought in the Sahel, Saudi-Arabia and the Indian sub... M Claussen - 《Climate Dynamics》...
s peace and security endeavors. Through various means such as port calls and joint exercises and training, China has provided strong support to African countries in strengthening national defense and the armed forces, and to countries in the Sahel region and those bordering the Gulf of Aden and ...
Many hot areas of countries that suffer from a lack of water such as the Sahel region of Northern Africa for example, experience significant quantities of dew. When the temperature is lowered over a short space of time by ten degrees or so, the water-harvesting possibilities from the air ...
According to a 2021 study in the Journal of Hydrology, the Sahel region is increasingly threatened by floods. 根据Journal of Hydrology2021年的一项研究,萨赫勒地区越来越受到洪水的威胁。 The study described widespread havoc and devastation as becoming commonplace. Reuters correspondent David Doyle. ...
Many hot areas of countries that suffer from a lack of water such as the Sahel region of Northern Africa for example, experience significant quantities of dew. When the temperature is lowered over a short space of time by ten degrees or so, the water-harvesting possibilities from the air ...
Though it is not often covered in the press, the growth of the Sahara is a human crisis on a grand scale, with 18 million people in the Sahel region, a semi-arid band just south of the desert, now facing a major food crisis. For example, this year Burkina Faso is facing a 32 000...