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

Akinwunmi Adesina, President of African Development Bank, says the sum of $510 million will be expended in the financing the ...

The Board of Directors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has approved a total of €230 million and $10 ...

Local populations feel the effects of climate change ... ISS research in West Africa, some carried out as early as 2016, found that people joined insurgencies to protect themselves, their family ...

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 ...

Farming in the Age of Uncertainty In the sweltering plains of Northern Ghana, a farmer looks to the sky, praying for rain .

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

Our research explores weather and climate hazards and their ... circulation shift southward. In West Africa this causes the inter-tropical convergence zone—where moist air from the south meets ...

The Board of Directors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has approved a combined financing package of €230 million and $10 million to boost socio-economic growth and regional ...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a senior loan of €110 million (US$118.86 billion) to ...

The Board of Directors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has approved a combined financing package of ...