In Episode 2 of the series, Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the border ...

As the gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sudan’s location gives it enormous geostrategic importance. It has an 800-kilometre coastline along the Red Sea that carries ...

DR. NACHTIGAL'S wanderings came to an end more than six years ago. Most of his results have been brought at various times before learned societies and otherwise published, and the most important ...

News about Western Sahara, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, ... Sudan, Libya and southern Egypt have received more than 400% of their typical rainfall since mid-July, according to CPC data.

Sudan’s importance stems from its location (see map). Nestled in the north-east corner of Africa, it is a gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn.

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, ... Sudan, Libya and southern Egypt have received more than 400% of their typical rainfall since mid-July, according to CPC data.

Diplomats and aid officials from around the world are meeting Tuesday in London to try to ease the suffering from the 2-year-old war in Sudan, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of ...

A peace deal ending a conflict that killed tens of thousands in South Sudan is in danger of collapsing, raising fears that the world’s youngest nation — and one of its poorest — could ...

Why parts of the Sahara desert are turning green this month. ... Portions of Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan and Eritrea have seen the largest increases in rainfall compared with normal.

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, ... Sudan, Libya and southern Egypt have received more than 400% of their typical rainfall since mid-July, according to CPC data.