France officially ended its decades-long military presence in Chad, its last stronghold in the West African region. The shift ...

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

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 ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle ...

On Sunday, Austria's Foreign Ministry said unnamed gunmen had kidnapped an Austrian aid worker in Agadez, Niger, roughly 280 miles (450 kilometers) from the largely porous desert border with Algeria.

MADRID — Spain’s foreign ministry says that a Spanish man has been kidnapped in an unspecified northern African country, while Spanish media report that the man is being held by a jihadist group.

BESS stores surplus energy for peak demand, stabilising the grid and reducing energy costs. Credit: The Desert Photo/Shutterstock. Global private markets company Partners Group has committed €400m ...

Two siblings, Amina Aliyu and Aishat Mohammed Aliyu, have been sentenced to death in Niger State for the brutal killing of Hafsat Aliyu, a married woman. Zainab, the youngest sibling, received ...

It's said that the kidnappers belong to the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara and that they released ... was kidnapped by gunmen in northern Niger, the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...

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 ...