Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, ...

The U.N.'s food agency says it will suspend various food and nutritional assistance in vulnerable countries across West and ...

In late June, Pasatiempo caught up with Vieux Farka Touré, a Mali (West African) musician whose father is the late Ali Farka ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin is a dangerous group. It is causing instability in West Africa. The group formed in 2017 ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

The Polisario now stands at this same precipice of ideological collapse – its failed strategy mirroring the catastrophic ...

On proposed completion in 2030, the Great Green Wall is expected to be the largest living structure on the planet, three ...

Morocco’s $1.3bn Atlantic Initiative aims to link Sahel nations to the ocean via Western Sahara, despite coups, rivalries, ...

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

Every person, by nature, is afraid of something. This is how the self-preservation mechanism works. Fear of the dark, heights ...