Sahel, semiarid region of western and north-central Africa extending from Senegal eastward to Sudan. It forms a transitional zone between the arid Sahara (desert) to the north and the belt of humid savannas to the south.
The Sahel stretches from the Atlantic Ocean on the west, eastward through northern Senegal, southern Mauritania, the great bend of the Niger River in Mali, Burkina Faso, southern Niger, northeastern Nigeria, south-central Chad, and through the nation of Sudan to the Red Sea coast.
It is a transition zone between the wetter savannahs of Sudan in the south and the drier Sahara in the north. The Sahel is characterized by a hot, semi-arid climate and extends in the southernmost latitudes of North Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea.
It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north. The Sahel has a hot semi-arid climate and stretches across the southernmost latitudes of North Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea.
The Sahel is a band of territory in Africa that stretches the length of the continent, from the Atlantic coast of Senegal and Mauritania to the Red Sea coast of Eritrea. The Sahel acts like a buffer or transition zone between the Sahara Desert to the north and the fertile savannahs to the south.
Nearly four million people across Africa’s vast semi-arid Sahel region have been uprooted by a volatile mix of conflict, hunger and climate change, the UN warned on Friday, describing an...
A 5,000 kilometre belt of land below the Sahara Desert, the Sahel stretches from Africa’s Atlantic coast to the Red Sea. It includes four countries bordering Lake Chad - Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria – as well as Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal.