Sahel’s countries window of opportunity 38 years to harness demographic dividend

SWEDD covers five (05) countries in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania and Niger) and one country in Central Africa (Chad) spread over an area of 5 419 800 km2 of which the individual areas of the respective countries exceed 1 000 000 km2, except that of Burkina Faso (274 400 km2) and Côte d’Ivoire (322 462 km2).