The Mauritania iron ore train has been running since 1963. It was built not for people, but for purpose — to carry wealth ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...

"Our findings suggest that pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into a deeply divergent and isolated North African lineage ... mummies buried in the Sahara waiting to be discovered.

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

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.

Ghana's new leader said Tuesday he initiated a fresh bid to woo back Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to the west African bloc ...

An archaeology breakthrough has been made after a previously unknown human lineage that lived in the "green Sahara" in Africa was discovered through two 7,000-year-old mummies. DNA revealed the ...

For the first time in a couple of years, a plume of dust and sand from the largest desert on Earth has descended on the north west of Ireland, having been sucked up into the atmosphere over Africa and ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara ... North Africa from the hyperarid desert it is ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

particularly in regions like the Bodélé Depression in the Chadian Sahara. The combination of powerful winds and erodible soils makes this area the primary source of desert dust in west Africa. It is ...