The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.
The initiative will look to increase the amount of arable land in the region bordering Africa’s Sahara Desert known as the ... Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso ...
Geographical determinism, the theory that physical environments significantly influence social and political development, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chad, in central Africa, is the world’s most polluted country, while California has the worst air pollution in North America, according to an IQAir report.