Niger has already earmarked the land. The project — to be called NigerHeritage ... and now 20 tons of bone sit in the middle of the Sahara. Niger’s dinosaur story began with another ...

The U.S. and other countries had seen Niger as the last major counter-terrorism partner in the vast Sahel region, south of the Sahara Desert ... likely entry point by land. On Saturday, Nigeria ...

A vast, arid state on the edge of the Sahara desert, Niger has seen a series of coups and political instability in the decades following independence from France in 1960. Today the country ...

Now, in Niger, in the Sahara Desert until Thanksgiving ... both of which once prospered on the same land, separated by thousands of years. He discovered, in short, evidence of a once green ...

Late last month, armed troops in Niger overthrew the government ... important belt of hot, semiarid land stretching across Africa just below the Sahara desert. In 2020, Mali’s government ...

Arable land in the fast-growing country shrank nearly 50 percent per capita from 1996 to 2016. Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara ...

located in the Sahara desert. Those operations have been suspended in the wake of the apparent coup, namely the drone activity since Niger's airspace has been closed below 24,000 feet. Protestors ...

President Bola Tinubu has directed the opening of Nigeria's land and air borders with the Republic of Niger and the lifting of other sanctions against the country with immediate effect.

a Niger-based migrant rights group said Thursday. Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bused to a remote desert area known as “Point Zero ...