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

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

The long-standing conflict over Western Sahara—a resource-rich but sparsely populated desert region—traces its origins to the ...

A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological ...

You know, it's a desert. But to them it's something deeper than just that ... This year marks 50 years since Morocco invaded Western Sahara, forcibly displacing the Sahrawi people into Algeria.

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

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

Crossing the desert in northwest Africa is the incredible ... However, following Mauritania’s annexation of southern Western Sahara in 1976, the line came under constant attack by Polisario ...

The vast desert territory is a former Spanish colony ... "This visit reinforces Morocco's fait accompli in Western Sahara, a territory where the decolonization process remains incomplete and ...