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

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

Read more: The Most Dangerous Spots To Swim In The World The Sahara Desert encompasses several underrated countries in Northern Africa filled with natural wonders, and Chad's Ennedi Plateau ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in ... Sign up The largest increase in greenness this year was in southern Chad, southern Sudan and Eritrea; parts of Mali ...

Whenever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do you know that the desert was not always this arid and once had water and ...

Its dry stone and mud mortar homes, mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic ... rather than areas deep in the Sahara Desert. Still, in Chinguetti, a changing climate ...

The initiative will look to increase the amount of arable land in the region bordering Africa’s Sahara Desert known as the ... Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso ...

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.

The Sahel is a narrow belt of land which lies immediately to the south of the Sahara Desert and which extends across most of Africa. The main causes of desertification include: ...