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A POSSE of turban-clad soldiers perched on "ships of the desert" may conjure images of the past, but Mauritania's camelback ...
The burgeoning dam dispute between Morocco and Algeria is hardly unique: Climate change is exacerbating water conflicts around the world.
An independent Western Sahara run by Polisario Front would likely turn into another source of regional insecurity.
North Africa receives some of the most intense solar energy on Earth, and just a fraction of the Sahara could theoretically ...
Near the edge of the Sahara Desert, in Egypt’s West Minya, Chinese drillers bore deep into the earth, tapping groundwater to ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States.
The United Kingdom is shifting its stance on the disputed Western Sahara, backing Morocco’s plan to offer its people limited autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty ...
In the French-born Spanish director's fourth feature, which premiered in competition at Cannes, a father and son join a group ...
This October, a group of nine women, now known as the Sahara Sisters, will be trekking 50km across Sahara Desert ... contributing to a community project that supports vulnerable and homeless ...
and re-vegetation of desert areas using solar power and sea water. On the sidelines of QAFCO-6 inauguration ceremony here yesterday, the Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani opened ...
The Sahara is the largest desert in the world—excluding Antarctica and the Arctic ... The issue was that his plans clashed with the interests of France and Spain. France opposed the project because ...
About two decades ago, African nations launched an audacious plan: a 7,700km “Great Green Wall” to hold back the Sahara Desert’s southward march. Yet years passed and progress was stalled ...