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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

NIAMEY, March 30 (Reuters) - Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as ... whose vast desert north is crossed by migrants and ...

An African civic organisation, the Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa (PAACA) has kicked against the proposed bill by the House of Representatives seeking for an age limit and also ...

With one exception. The Trump administration has thrown open the doors to white Afrikaners from South Africa, establishing a program called “Mission South Africa” to help them come to the ...