West Africa’s food security stakeholders met in Conakry, Guinea, from 18-20 September to prepare a half-term assessment of the 2017-18 agro-pastoral campaign in the Sahel and West Africa.

The Secretariat's latest publication "Cross-border Co-operation and Policy Networks in West Africa" was presented at the 2017 European Conference on African Studies in Basel. 

Members of the Strategy and Policy Group (SPG) of the Sahel and West Africa Club met in Paris on 16 June.

T. Jean de Dieu Somda, Special Representative of the SWAC President, met with Abdallah Boureima, the new UEMOA Commission President to congratulate him for his appointment.

Listen: SWAC Secretariat Director Laurent Bossard was a guest on France Culture’s foreign affairs radio programme to discuss the current food crises in Africa, including the Lake Chad region. 

"Girls robbed of their childhood in the Sahel", read the most recent opinion piece by SWAC Secretariat Director Laurent Bossard published by Le Monde Afrique (French)