The easy mistake is to view the Sahara as a buffer—as emptiness incarnate, a veritable no-man’s-land. After all ... the largest city in central Niger. As many as 25 passengers cram into ...

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 ...

A convoy of pickups packed with Nigeriens and other Africans begins a three-day trek from Agadez, Niger, through the Sahara to Libya ... a shortage of arable land made worse by desertification ...

The recent lifting of Niger's ban on people smuggling has been welcomed by many in Agadez, a city on the edge of the Sahara - a once busy transit point for migrants heading towards North Africa ...

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 ...

For three days, this semi-arid patch edging the Sahara desert blooms with ... lack of work, land problems, a lot of injustice.” In Niger, the world’s worst-performing country in terms of ...

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 ...

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 ...