🇲🇱Mali

In Mali's Mopti region the Red Cross acted when the Bani River passed 633 cm at Sofara, handing out sandbags and shovels and broadcasting warnings in Bamana and French before the floodwater peaked.

A Bamako NGO founded in 1999 says it has set up 17,000 solar panels in Malian schools, maternity clinics and emergency rooms, and now funds solar-pumped market gardens run largely by women.

Malian farmers are turning back the desert and rebuilding food security using centuries-old tree-regeneration techniques revived by a homegrown Sahelian NGO.

An all-Malian field team protects the world's last desert-adapted elephants and their 1,000km migration route by putting local communities in charge of natural resource rules.