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Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River then ...
Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...
Riccardo Fabiani, north Africa director at the International Crisis Group, said the decision in June was “pretty bad” for ...
In one hand, the dancers hold swords symbolizing battle. In the other, a piece of cloth symbolizing peace. They dance a ...
Deserts provide some of the most unique and treacherous trekking experiences on the globe. These vast, barren lands are not ...
Tunisia and Algeria meet for the first time at the TotalEnergies CAF Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in a Group B encounter at the Père Jégo Stadium in Casablanca on Thursday (Kick-off: 17:00 ...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The World Food Program said Friday it is suspending food and nutritional assistance across crisis-hit ...
The Sahara is known for being one of the driest places on Earth, but in fact, it can actually flood. Those floods aren't necessarily a good thing, though.
THE Sahara, comparable in size to the United States, is essentially a land of minerals. Plants, animals and men, all live there artificially. The vast spaces, the heat, the lack of water and ...
The UK government has officially withdrawn its support for the £25 billion ($34.4 billion) Morocco-UK Power Project, a pioneering plan to harness solar and wind energy from the Sahara Desert and ...
"One of the more difficult places to visit is the sparsely populated territory known as Western Sahara," writes John P. Smith ...
The Sahara in North Africa is the largest hot desert on the planet, spanning an area of around 3.6 million sq miles (9.2 million sq km). Over time, the desert has slowly pushed itself southward, ...