Despite its vast expanse of sand, the Sahara is not the largest desert on the planet, that distinction goes to someplace with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Niger is a key part of the African region known as the Sahel - a belt of land that stretches from the ... to spread southwards from the Sahara into the Sahel. Experts say temperatures in the ...

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 ...

But at the same time, governments in the Sahel region, the arid strip of land south of the Sahara that includes Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, had begun to rely on the United States and European ...

It verges on cliché to think of the Sahara as numinous, a place of deep contemplation and spiritual refuge. But in Hoggar, I realised that evening, the totemic land makes that tendency irresistible.