The Sahel Untold

In this episode, we meet Said, a young man from Chad, who decided to make a difference for his country. Having studied and lived abroad for many years, he co-founded the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Water4Chad, whose core mission is to provide sustainable access to clean water for communities across Chad. Half of this vast country covering 1.28 million square kilometres is desert. Chad has...

In this episode, we hear the powerful, personal stories of Zeinab and Fatima—women whose lives were changed forever by Boko Haram, the notorious jihadist group operating in the Lake Chad Basin. Zeinab shares her harrowing abduction and how she was forced to become a stranger’s wife, while Fatima recounts the day she was taken from a farm, forced into multiple marriages, and ultimately branded ‘cur...

In this premiere episode of The Sahel Untold, we meet Bouba, a man from Maiduguri, a town in northern Nigeria, whose life took an unexpected turn. Once dreaming of becoming a doctor, Bouba found himself deep in the Sambisa Forest, tending to the wounds of Boko Haram fighters. He shares his story—how he was drawn into the notorious jihadist group, what life was like as a fighter and the path that u...