The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities as African nations have grown closer to Moscow.

France has handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities. The move on Thursday came two months after the ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Niger was seen as one of the last democratic countries in Africa’s Sahel region that Western nations could partner with to beat back the jihadi insurgency in the vast expanse below the Sahara ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped in the northern Niger city of Agadez, media and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said Austria's embassy in Algeria, which is also ...

on the edge of the Sahara Desert, reported Reuters news agency. The victim, named Eva Gretzmacher, is a development worker in her mid-70s and had lived in Niger for more than two decades ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain A fairly recent theory about the truth behind Atlantis is that it can be identified with a peculiar natural formation known as the Eye of the Sahara. This is a ...

There are certain places in the world that just take people’s breath away. This could be due to their size, beauty or uniqueness. And there is something intriguing about miles of sand dunes ...

AIN SEFRA, Algeria – For the second time in two years, a blanket of snow covered parts of the Sahara Desert in northern Africa, creating a rare and unexpected sight. On New Year's Day, Algerian ...

The Tuareg people are among the indigenous Berber groups populating the Sahara, in the south of Algeria and the north of Mali and Niger. They took up arms in 2012, following previous rebellions ...

The Niger State Police Command has arrested two robbery suspects and rescued them from an enraged mob in Gauraka, Tafa Local Government Area. It was gathered that the suspects, alongside other ...