Sweeping deserts, tank battles, and legendary generals - The North African Campaign was one of WWII’s most dramatic and ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth of vegetation, and rising temperatures since February 2025 speeding their ...

Meteorologists had predicted that a rare deluge could strike North Africa’s Sahara Desert, where many areas receive less than an inch of rain a year. Officials in Morocco said 18 people were killed in ...

Animated Map: The North African Campaign. The war in the desert made Bernard Montgomery one of Britain's most famous generals, and gave the German General Erwin Rommel the nickname 'Desert Fox'.

But for some on the continent, however, the widely-held perception is of two very different regions; Africa south of the Sahara desert, or sub-Saharan Africa, and north Africa. For some, the dividing ...

Before the great desert was born, North Africa had a moister, semiarid climate. A few lines of evidence, including ancient dune deposits found in Chad, had hinted that the arid Sahara may have ...