An attack by a jihadi group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

An attack by an extremist group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

At the southern edge of the Sahara, a West African gold rush ... which drove him into Niger and left him in the desert. After several days on foot, he arrived in Agadez, four months from the ...

Rare storms temporarily create lakes in the Sahara desert, revealing surprising moisture pathways and climate connections.

Beijing’s backing of Niger’s military junta is not an isolated policy. In the Sahel – a semi-arid region south of the Sahara desert – China is also supporting the military juntas of ...

Its new report says that in this semi-arid area to the south of the Sahara Desert 3,885 people out of ... Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Cameroon, Guinea, The Gambia, Senegal, Nigeria, Chad and ...

These nations include countries in the Sahel-Sahara region—Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria ... halt the expansion of the Sahara Desert.” The site further explained ...

a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. The violence, which started in Mali in 2012 and has now extended to Burkina Faso and Niger, has ...

Moroccan authorities this month arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel, a region south of the Sahara Desert, officials said Monday.

Beijing's backing of Niger's military junta is not an isolated policy. In the Sahel - a semi-arid region south of the Sahara desert - China is also supporting the military juntas of neighbouring ...