Star dunes - sometimes called pyramid dunes - stand out among sand dunes for their towering height and eye-catching form.

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

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

As climate change progresses, projections suggest an increase in rainfall intensity and frequency in the region.

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

On July 1, 1905, and for a month, the Magasin d’Education et de Récréation serialized a novel by Jules Verne titled ...

In a desert town in Pakistan, Hindus prepare meals for fasting Muslims, who in turn gather to welcome a Holi procession, a rare moment of religious solidarity in the Islamic nation. Discrimination ...

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) and Eritrea have signed an agreement for $19.5 million in grant funding for the Desert to Power Eritrea 12MW Mini Grid Project. Eritrea’s Minister of ...

Transboundary pests present a significant threat to agricultural production and household incomes, with desert locust invasions being among the most disruptive. Despite ongoing control efforts, such ...

New Delhi was the most polluted capital city globally, followed by N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, a country in central Africa with ... mineral dust in the Sahara Desert as the primary source ...

The Middle East and North Africa have become the target of a new campaign that ... The activity, attributed to a threat actor dubbed Desert Dexter, was discovered in February 2025. It chiefly involves ...

For two years, an ambitious initiative in sub-Saharan Africa has demonstrated how pocket ... are essentially diagnostic deserts. The lack of equitable, accessible primary healthcare for women ...