Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologist Nada Salem and colleagues sequenced the ancient DNA of two female ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

A militant leader from Mali championed a rock band and helped write a hit song before leading an Islamist army that killed ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from haramata, a word in the Ghanaian language Fanti.The wind originates from ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from ...

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

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization issued an alert for Algeria, Libya and Tunisia against groups of desert locusts. The outbreak that began in December in the Sahel spread to North Africa during ...

The skies in Greece have taken on an orange tint as a new wave of dust from the African continent has blanketed many regions ...

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

Out of a total of 226 countries or territories listed on the foreign travel advice pages, 73 are marked as possessing areas ...