Mr Umar Farouk, a Deputy Director in the Niger State Ministry of Land Transportation, was convicted and sentenced to seven ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with pickaxes - and risking their lives in search of precious treasure.

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

Shooting down of a military ginger tensions between Algeria and Mali amidst insecurity palapa for di Sahel region ...

It takes two hours and 15 minutes to fly from Algiers to Djanet, Algeria, a tiny town in the Sahara Desert ... Libya, Mali and Niger. We stepped off the plane into a small airport where the ...

Nearly one half of the planet's land mass is on the brink of turning ... has been working to improve water resilience in ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Four Moroccan truck drivers who were kidnapped in West Africa over the weekend were released in Niger ... an arid swath of land south of the Sahara where militant ...

FREE TO READ] Italian PM’s €5.5bn ‘Mattei plan’ is aimed at resetting her country’s relationship with the continent ...