The Western Sahara, a sparsely populated desert region on Africa's northwest coast, was a Spanish colony before its annexation by Morocco in 1975. This has led to a protracted territorial dispute ...

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 ...

In a sign of strengthening ties, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed his Austrian counterpart Alexander Van der Bellen to discuss bilateral relations ...

In one hand, the dancers hold swords symbolizing battle. In the other, a piece of cloth symbolizing peace. They dance a ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The World Food Programme said Friday it is suspending food and nutritional assistance across crisis-hit ...

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 ...

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 ...

"One of the more difficult places to visit is the sparsely populated territory known as Western Sahara," writes John P. Smith ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Desert Technologies is a Saudi-based smart infrastructure and solar PV manufacturing company delivering scalable renewable energy solutions—including Sahara and mini-grid systems—to empower ...

Egypt's Whale Valley, or "Wadi Al-Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures from land-based to marine animals.