The government of the Saharawi Republic has called on the United Nations, the African Union and Nigeria to impress on Morocco to conduct a referendum to determine its status.Mohamed Yeslem Beisat, ...

It’s estimated over 16 million people live in the Thar, spread across cities like Jodhpur and Bikaner, rural villages, and ...

Journey into the heart of the Sahara Desert, the world’s largest hot desert, where extreme heat and unforgiving conditions ...

Satellite images early Friday show Saharan dust over the Florida peninsula and the eastern Gulf. What that means for the weekend.

Bolton was an unpaid adviser to James Baker, the former American secretary of state, when he was the UN’s envoy for Western Sahara from 1997 to 2004. A map by Minurso, the UN mission, outlining the ...

“They think it’s a geographic reference, like the western part of the Sahara Desert, right? So very few people understand the background, and we’ve got to make a change there.” During a ...

Remains of the very first dinosaurs on Earth may be buried deep beneath the Sahara desert and Amazon rainforest ... dinosaurs might have originated in western, low-latitude Gondwana," Heath ...

Sovereignty over Western Sahara, a mostly desert territory on the west coast of Africa, is heavily contested. Morocco controls more than three-quarters of the region, which Rabat refers to as the ...

It is just before 15:00 on Saturday in Timbuktu and the intense desert heat has reached ... on the southern edge of the Sahara. Germany is one of the largest Western contributors to the UN mission.

On average, the Sahara receives between zero and 3 inches of rain per year. However, according to average rainfall maps from the NWS Climate Prediction Center, some parts of the desert in northern ...

The map labelled both Morocco and Western Sahara, sparking a backlash on Moroccan ... in which the map of Morocco appears cut off from its desert," an Israeli foreign affairs spokesperson said ...

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), or Western Sahara, appears to be gradually but steadily losing ground in its long battle for independence from Morocco. In 1991, Rabat accepted a United ...