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

Amadou (right) and Abu Diop walk into the Aurora ICE Processing Center to visit a relative, who’s been held there since he ...

Mauritania is one of the world’s poorest ... as well as locals living in desert communities. Some of the most popular videos contain captions lik:, "POV: you wake up on the most dangerous ...

Mauritania’s Iron Ore Train stretches across the Sahara Desert, offering an adventurous yet difficult 18-hour journey. With its cargo of iron ore, the train becomes a unique ride for locals and ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

However, in recent years, the Mauritanian Ramadan table has witnessed changes ... Tishtar is dried meat that carries the scent of the desert. It's dried by placing it on a rope and leaving it for days ...

Local farmers harvest rice at a high-yield hybrid rice demonstration field in Mahitsy, Madagascar, on May 8, 2024. To help ...

BASSIKOUNOU, Mauritania — Families travel through the night on desert backroads, arriving in this desolate borderland each day with new stories of terror about the ...

Mauritania is predominantly a desert country, with vast stretches of pastoral land and only 0.5% arable land. The population is estimated at around 5 million (2024), and with a density of 5 ...

The world's driest country, found in Africa, receives so little rainfall each year that it would not be enough to fill a mug.