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 ...

On Sunday, Austria's Foreign Ministry said unnamed gunmen had kidnapped an Austrian aid worker in Agadez, Niger, roughly 280 ... and terrorism in the vast Sahara, however the kidnapping comes ...

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 ...

Richard Dicker, served as director of Human Rights Watch's International Justice Program between 2001 and 2021. He has worked at Human Rights Watch since 1991. He started working on international ...

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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 ...