As travel warnings ease and flights increase, David Pilling joins a tour operator’s ‘recce’, travelling from the coast into the desert to find dune seas, ancient villages and remote oases ...

Etran de L'Aïr ("stars of the Aïr region") are a four-piece rock band from Agadez, Niger, a West African city that has an estimated population approximately the size of Santa Fe County, situated in a ...

It takes two hours and 15 minutes to fly from Algiers to Djanet, Algeria, a tiny town in the Sahara Desert. By the time ... Mali and Niger. We stepped off the plane into a small airport where ...

Geographical determinism, the theory that physical environments significantly influence social and political development, ...

On April 8, the Board of Governors of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) appointed Abdullah Almusaibeeh ...

Grainy camera footage showed them lying still in the blistering heat of the desert – six or seven bodies, maybe more. Wet, red spots in the sand and belongings scattered across the landscape ...

The young man was already planning a perilous journey through the desert to Europe and felt it ... through several African countries, including Niger and Mali, before arriving in Libya.

Observers familiar with his tenure describe Tah’s leadership style as technically grounded and institutionally focused.

Concurrently, incidents of pipeline vandalism, including a fire on the Trans Niger Pipeline ... a secondary objective to manage the political landscape ahead of upcoming electoral preparations.

Chance discoveries while traveling give another dimension to what’s been planned and researched. So often it’s the unexpected things that are best remembered and inspire a return visit.

The vast plains in the interior of Mexico is the home of the maguey, and the plant with its thorny leaves imparts a peculiar character to the Mexican landscape ... of the Niger and Nile regions.