Before petroleum was discovered in the late 1950s, the country was considered one of the poorest nations in the world.

To combat the brewing drought and desertification, the African Union developed the Great Green Wall Initiative in 2007. The ...

Africa has nine deserts in total but none are arguably as famous as the Sahara. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million square miles - an area roughly the size of the ...

Many countries around the world suffer from the problems caused by desertification but it is the Sahel region of Africa where the effects are greatest. The Sahel is a narrow belt of land which ...

These issues of gradual desertification—where more of the ... 5,000 miles (8,000km) across Africa's Sahel region. In Téssékéré, bare, scattered plots of fenced-off land covered in cracked ...

Desertification close desertificationThe spread of desert conditions in arid regions due to human activities, drought or climate change. is the process of land turning into desert as the quality ...

Aridity is silently spreading through many of the world’s cocoa-producing regions. There are steps we can take to save them.

Based on current climate and land conditions, the Murray-Darling basin is reducing in size. The basin is an indication on the effects of desertification occuring across the country. Human conditions ...

In West Africa, start-up Jetstream Africa—the continent’s largest digital freight forwarder—aims to serve the continent’s 2 million import and export businesses, offering features like AI ...

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