In an October 2024 briefing to the UN Security Council, Staffan de Mistura, the secretary-general’s Western Sahara envoy, ...

The town of Swakopmund in Namibia is world-famous for its huge desert landscape and giant dunes that create ideal conditions ...

THE warmer spring season has finally arrived, with Brits set to enjoy a glorious +18C sunshine on Thursday. Like many beauty buffs, I will have my legs out – which means having to apply fake ...

The fossil shark remained in the seabed after losing its life for millions of years through the oceanic and environmental shift that happened until the place was a desert. Erosion and excavation then ...

The 46th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union took place in February 2025 in Addis Ababa. The ...

A convoy of pickups packed with Nigeriens and other Africans begins a three-day trek from Agadez, Niger, through the Sahara to Libya ... themselves across the desert on the outskirts of Agadez ...

Analysis of Moroccan stalagmites reveals that the Sahara received increased rainfall between 8,700 and 4,300 years ago, ...

About two decades ago, African nations launched an audacious plan: a 7,700km “Great Green Wall” to hold back the Sahara Desert’s southward march. Yet years passed and progress was stalled ...

File Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy In 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first known time. It fell a second time in 2016 and a third time in 2018.

Africa’s mega-project to help combat climate change, desertification, and land degradation has seen positive strides. The project will see a 4,722-mile green wall that will aim to restore 100 ...