Researchers believe rainfall and flooding changed the landscape of the arid desert to a green area some 8,000 years ago.

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A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

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NIAMEY, March 30 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Competition will be fierce with only one guaranteed spot available to Mali and Ghana (Group I), Nigeria and South Africa (Group C), and Senegal and DR Congo (Group B). The first four matchdays are in ...

The country's third largest lake is home to many beautiful rocky and sandy beaches, though water temperatures are chilly—rarely topping 73 degrees Fahrenheit, even in summer. You'll find ...

Plunging solar panel prices, more business-friendly regulation by African governments and international funding are now spurring a rapid rollout from Nigeria to Madagascar. In January, the World ...

The city’s mayor joins the gatherings on cold mornings alongside the lake. The map locates Lake Suwa, and the city of Suwa, on its southeastern shore, in Nagano Prefecture, west of Tokyo ...

Instead of letting those images become lost in your camera roll, Google will let you feed them into Maps. The new screenshot list feature will let you add those images to Maps, where Gemini will ...

The attack also left over a dozen soldiers wounded and occurred in the Lake Chad area near the town ... The conflict, now Africa’s longest struggle with militancy, has spilled into Nigeria ...