Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from ...

If you think about Africa, you maybe think of a very hot and dry place. But the climate and weather on this ... there are two other important zones – the Tropic of Cancer, and the Tropic of ...

Djiby Sow Senior Researcher, ISS Regional Office for West Africa and the Sahel ... and natural resource scarcity Climate change impacts combine with governance problems, particularly the management of ...

The World Bank’s Blue Economy brief urges urgent action to protect Africa’s coastal and marine ecosystems, which are vital ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

Africa is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South Atlantic Ocean in the south-west and the North Atlantic ... and it has a range of climate zones and biomes. The Congo rainforest ...

Here, the study examines the vulnerability of the West African (WA) coast using six satellite-derived geophysical variables and two key socioeconomic parameters as indicators of coastal vulnerability ...