Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to ...

The nuclear tests conducted by the United States and the then USSR (present day Russia) during the Cold War-era have left ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso.

The same month, militants of an Islamic State group affiliate — known as Islamic State Sahel Province — likely shot and killed 21 passengers on a bus in the Arboudji village, near the border with ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

In a little-known 1957 conflict, Moroccos Liberation Army staged a bold offensive against Spanish colonial rule in Ifni and ...

Ambassador Mouloud Said, the representative of Western Sahara in Washington, disputed Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over the territory at a Harvard Law School event on Monday.

An international team of climate scientists has found that dust brought to parts of Europe in 2022 from the Saharan desert ...

Its bite can lead to paralysis or death without antivenom. The African Lion, powerful and fast, is one of the desert’s top predators. A lion’s attack can be fatal to both prey and humans.