Senegal
The Pulitzer Center staff share their favorite photos from 2012.
Africa hopes to halt the encroachment of the Sahara with a 4,300-mile wall of trees stretching from Senegal to Djibouti.
The Senegalese Sahel is home to the nomadic Peuhl herders who have witnessed the impact of climate change on their ecosystem. They're looking to the Great Green Wall to slow desertification.
Pulitzer Center grantee Bobby Bascomb visited Senegal to look at the progress of Africa's Great Green Wall, a project aimed at slowing the desertification of the Sahel region.
Protest songs by Senegalese rappers have become the unofficial soundtrack of the opposition movement, uniting demonstrators seeking to oust President Abdoulaye Wade.
Hip Hop is playing an important role in Senegal's democratic process—which rapper Red Black makes clear with his song "Na Dem."
Attempts to record goat sounds led Living on Earth's Bobby Bascomb to be invited to tea and dinner with a Peuhl family.
Is the great green wall of trees Africa's answer to the advancing Sahara desert?
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Liberia and Senegal.
For Senegal's Great Green Wall to be a success the government first had to get support from communities living in the region.
Senegal rappers and other musicians are leading a movement for political and social change. One of their goals is to defeat President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for an unconstitutional third term.
When journalists report on vulnerable populations do the same rules apply in all cases and in all cultures?
The Senegalese hip-hop community, led by rapper Red Black, is rallying behind the opposition movement.