The Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD), which is the largest hydropower injector on the African continent, would drive integrated growth in the region and extend it to other parts of Africa, ...

A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and lakes over a period of 8 million years, allowing for the occupation and ...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

Mineral deposits in limestone caves in Saudi Arabia show that the now arid Saharo-Arabian Desert experienced increased ...

A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and ...

KAKUMA, Kenya -- Windswept and remote, set in the cattle-rustling lands of Kenya’s northwest, Kakuma was never meant to be ...

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

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in the north, to the Cape region in the south. Join presenter, Chioma, as she ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land ...

The vast 22.5 acre area is the UK’s biggest ever zoo development, designed to replicate the grasslands of Africa ...