West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a ...

A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with ...

China has helped remake Niger's energy sector, but pay disparities and unequal employment roles have caused friction.

Open Letter to Ms Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, President of European Commission. Madam President, 1. It is with deep ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from ...

The skies in Greece have taken on an orange tint as a new wave of dust from the African continent has blanketed many regions ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization issued an alert for Algeria, Libya and Tunisia against groups of desert locusts. The outbreak that began in December in the Sahel spread to North Africa during ...

Mali’s crisis began in 2012, when coalitions of Tuareg secessionists known collectively as the Coordination of Azawad ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

New research reveals that only the most intense Atlantic-sourced storms are responsible for filling a normally dry lake in ...