The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

We traveled to Africa to visit Algeria, where we saw the Sahara Desert, drank foamy tea, ate bread and experienced the change in worlds from Algiers to Djanet.

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

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

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods in their bid to fund a new three-state union ...

China has helped remake Niger's energy sector, but pay disparities and unequal employment roles have caused friction.

The military governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5 percent levy on imported goods from Nigeria ...

Striking out from Agadez, Niger, Etran de L’Aïr (henceforth, EDL) consist of three brothers and a cousin: bassist Abdoulaye ...

West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a ...

It declared three days of national mourning Niger, along with its neighbors Burkina Faso and ... But the security situation in the Sahel, a vast region on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, has ...

Niger, a former French colony located in the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert, remains one of the world's least-developed nations, despite its significant resource wealth, including uranium.