For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's ...

At the southern edge of the Sahara, a West African gold rush ... which drove him into Niger and left him in the desert. After several days on foot, he arrived in Agadez, four months from the ...

The Niger army had countered its defeat ... threats of al Qaeda and drug smuggling in the Sahara, they needed to enlist the Tuareg. "The desert has no secrets from the Tuareg," he said, repeating ...

Niger, like its neighbours Burkina Faso and Mali ... But the security situation in the Sahel, a vast region bordering the Sahara Desert, has deteriorated significantly since the juntas came to power, ...

The Sahara Desert is one of the most fascinating and extreme places on Earth! It’s the largest hot desert in the world, covering vast landscapes of sand, rock and even mountains. Despite its tough ...

Beijing’s backing of Niger’s military junta is not an isolated policy. In the Sahel – a semi-arid region south of the Sahara desert – China is also supporting the military juntas of ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa ... southern Sudan and Eritrea; parts of Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan and Eritrea had the biggest increases in rainfall. One sudden wave of lushness followed ...

Moroccan authorities have arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel ...

Niger, along with its neighbors Burkina Faso ... a vast region on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, has significantly worsened since the juntas took power, analysts say, with a record number ...

Moroccan authorities this month arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel, a region south of the Sahara Desert, officials said Monday.