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The Cliffs of Bandiagara are a sandstone escarpment and cultural landscape in central Mali associated with the Dogon people. Villages, houses, granaries, shrines, and burial sites are distributed along and below the cliff, reflecting long-established settlement traditions. The area is recognized as...

The Kingdom of Ghana flourished between the 8th and 13th centuries in the Sahel region of present-day Mali and Mauritania. It was a powerful empire centered on gold and salt trade routes, facilitated by the Soninke people. Al-Bakri’s accounts detail its sophisticated governance and wealth. The kingd...

The Kanem-Bornu Kingdom flourished in the Sahel region of Africa centered around Lake Chad. This powerful empire, existing from approximately the 8th to 19th centuries, controlled extensive trade networks and was ruled by the Sayfawa dynasty. Its influence extended across present-day Nigeria, Niger,...

The Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands in northeastern Nigeria are a Ramsar-listed floodplain system that supports millions of Palearctic migratory waterbirds and provides livelihoods for several hundred thousand people through flood-recession agriculture.

The Kanem-Bornu Empire was a historical African state centered around the Lake Chad basin. Existing in various forms from roughly the 8th to the 19th century, it was governed by the Sayfawa dynasty and became a dominant political and military force in the central Sahel. The empire's wealth was large...

The Kingdom of Bornu was a major African state that emerged as the western successor to the Kanem Empire around the Lake Chad region. Centered in what is now northeastern Nigeria, it extended into Chad, Cameroon, and Niger. Bornu established its capital at Ngazargamu and became a powerful trading st...

The Kingdom of Kanem was a major African state centered northeast of Lake Chad that existed from approximately 700 to 1380 CE. Founded by the Zaghawa people and later ruled by the Sefuwa dynasty, the kingdom developed sophisticated political institutions with rulers titled "mai" and controlled impor...

The Waza-Logone Floodplain in northern Cameroon and Chad is a seasonally inundated system whose hydrology was severely disrupted by dam construction in the 1970s–80s, prompting internationally supported restoration efforts in the 1990s.

Anacridium melanorhodon, commonly known as the Sahelian tree locust, is a species of grasshopper belonging to the family Acrididae. It is native to the Sahel region of Africa, as well as parts of the Middle East and southwestern Asia. The insect is typically arboreal, feeding on the leaves and branc...

The Lake Chad flooded savanna is a freshwater wetland ecoregion of the central Sahel surrounding and extending from Lake Chad. It spans parts of Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria and is supplied mainly by the Chari and Logone river system. Seasonal flooding creates open water, marshes, and flooded...

Sahelian Acacia savanna is a semi-arid ecological belt located between the Sahara Desert and the Sudanian savannas. It extends for about 5,900 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and is characterized by savanna vegetation associated with acacia trees. The region is relevant to readers...

South Saharan steppe and woodlands is a WWF terrestrial ecoregion forming a broad transition between the Sahara Desert and the Sahel. It extends across the southern Sahara from Mauritania in the west toward Sudan in the east and covers about 1.1 million square kilometres. The landscape consists of d...

Hieroglyphus daganensis is a grasshopper in the family Acrididae associated with the Sahel and other parts of West Africa. Krauss described the species in 1877. It feeds on grasses and cultivated cereal plants and is recognized in agricultural literature as a pest of rice and other crops, particular...

The Kingdom of Bagirmi was a historical kingdom in the region of present-day Chad, in the central Sahel. It was established around the sixteenth century, used Massenya as its capital, and was ruled by a Muslim dynasty after the state became Islamized. Bagirmi is studied in relation to the history of...

Chrotogonus senegalensis, commonly called the Senegalese pyrgomorph, is a grasshopper in the family Pyrgomorphidae. The species was described by Krauss in 1877 and is associated with parts of Africa, including the Sahel and areas of Central Africa. It is a terrestrial grasshopper found in environmen...

Lake Faguibine is a former lake system in northwestern Mali, in the Sahel region near Timbuktu. Its water level depends heavily on flooding connected with the Niger River, and prolonged drought together with reduced floodwater has caused the lake to shrink greatly and remain largely dry since the 19...

Oedaleus nigeriensis is a Nigerian band-winged grasshopper described by Uvarov in 1926, listed among the Sahel-associated species of Oedaleus.

Ochrilidia gracilis is a notably slender gomphocerin grasshopper distributed across North Africa and the Middle East, distinguished within its genus by its particularly elongated body.

Little Grey Woodpecker (Dendropicos elachus), also called the Sahelian Woodpecker, is a small African bird in the woodpecker family Picidae. It occurs in Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan, using steppe with scattered trees, wadis and dry stream beds. Its...