DAKAR: An attack by armed men in western Niger killed 12 soldiers, the army said on Saturday, in a border area that has long ...

A GROUNDBREAKING discovery of two mummies has revealed a previously unknown human ancestor from over 7,000 years ago. The ...

Algeria is rounding up migrants and dumping them across the border with Niger, according to a regional migrant rights group.

The Sahara Desert has an area of approximately 9,200,000 square kilometres. It is the third-largest desert in the world, but it's the largest hot desert in the world. It is the hottest desert in ...

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that does not mean it's free of that modern scourge of the environment - ...

On the edge of the Sahara Desert, some 400 miles southeast of Algiers, bandits swept down on a truck filled with food one day last week and killed two of the men in the cab. For one of them ...

Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bused to a remote desert area known as “Point Zero” after being apprehended in Algerian cities.

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the environment—the rubbish humanity discards. In southern Morocco, volunteers are ...