The IRC's new report, Watchlist Insight: Climate and Humanitarian Crisis in the Central Sahel, highlights the ways that long-term economic underdevelopment and political marginalisation are making communities in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger more vulnerable to the effects of both the climate crisis and protracted armed conflict.  

Violent conflict and climate change are driving protracted crises in the Sahel region of Africa, forcing large scale displacement across the region and beyond, with 4.4 million people forcibly displaced.