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 ...

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Niger has for many years battled a jihadi insurgency ... beat back the jihadi insurgency in the vast expanse below the Sahara Desert. The country has severed decades-long military ties with ...

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 ...