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The Sahel is a vast territory with a population of nearly 100 million people, comprising mainly 5 countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad (united in the G5 Sahel). The Sahel faces multiple difficulties and challenges, including the growing terrorist threat and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Sahel is a strip of Africa that marks the transition, both floristically and climatically, between the Saharan domain in the north and the savannahs of the Sudanian domain, where rainfall is substantial, in the south. From west to east, the Sahel extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. This region, considered as a transitional band is a migratory corridor within Africa. Since 2014, the Sahelian strip is facing a war called armed conflict in the Sahel. This conflict is an indirect consequence of the Algerian civil war. In search of rear bases, the Algerian Islamist rebels had decided to establish themselves in the desert, bordering the Sahel countries from the early 2000s.
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Ablassé Dembega, professor assistente de educação na Universidade Norbert Zongo em Koudougou, Burkina Faso, estudos de doutoramento na Universidade Saint Dénis Vincennes-Paris 8, formação em planeamento e administração da educação no Centre international d'études pédagogiques de Sèvres em Paris.
