Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nemcha, Zina and Zouina, three North African Sloughi hounds, play on the beach in Tunisia where their ancestors have long roamed desert plains, seemingly unaware of the existential threat to their ...

Deserts provide some of the most unique and treacherous trekking experiences on the globe. These vast, barren lands are not ...

The U.N.’s food agency says it will suspend various food and nutritional assistance in vulnerable countries across West and ...

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 ...

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.

Historians debate how they first made it to this part of North Africa, but many attribute their arrival to ... In the southern town of Douz, on the edge of the Sahara desert, dog breeder Nabil ...

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The UK government has officially withdrawn its support for the £25 billion ($34.4 billion) Morocco-UK Power Project, a pioneering plan to harness solar and wind energy from the Sahara Desert and ...