The importance of sound water management for sustainable development was highlighted, especially in the Sahel region.
Huge swathes of the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert have been rendered off-limits to foreigners.
It says that more than one million children in the Sahel region are at risk of severe malnutrition.
Lake Chad, like Darfur Lake, is in the Sahel region where rainfall has been increasing since the 1980s.
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Comparative hydrological drought-flood risk modelling at Northern Mexico and West African Sahel region.
This reflects the strategic vision to maintain stability in the Grand Sahara and in the Sahel region and to enhance Maghreb integration.
Urgent action is needed to stop drought in West Africa's Sahel region turning into a humanitarian disaster affecting 13 million people, Oxfam says.
Interestingly, rainfall patterns in the Sahel region, an arid landscape just south of the Sahara Desert where Darfur Lake is located, mirror global temperature patterns.
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"The Security Council encourages the international community to provide support to resolve the crisis in Mali and the Sahel region based on an integrated strategy for immediate and long term needs, encompassing security, development and humanitarian issues, " the council statement read.
The hostage crisis in Algeria is a "terrible warning" that the conflict in Mali "is not a matter between France and one of its former colonies in West Africa" but "a sign of the growing destabilization of the whole Sahel region, " the paper says.
One country on the opposite side of Africa where that scenario may already have started to play out is Mali, the third poorest nation in the world, where rainfall levels have been in decline for the past 30 years across the semi-arid Sahel region.
The hearings should have been more substantive because the United States is at a dangerous inflection point in North Africa and the Sahel region to its south, and leaders in both parties need to think carefully about how deeply we want to get involved in this volatile part of the world.
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The statement said the death of "one of the main leaders of AQIM marks an important stage in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel (region)".
But recent fighting in the Sahel the arid region just south of the Sahara Desert has sent jihadi fighters looking for new havens, raising fears that Tunisia is in their sights.
El Obeidi said that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb treated the whole region as one theater and was oblivious to the desert borders that divided the countries of the Sahel.
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