Community radio stations in northern Mali are threatened by both jihadis and government censorship. But local journalists ...

Morocco has declared 31 October a national holiday to mark the day the UN Security Council voted in favour of a resolution ...

You’ll find a lot more sand than trees in the Sahara Desert, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occasionally crop up. Here’s ...

When you think of deserts, you might envision isolated wastelands confined to single nations. Yet the world's most massive ...

UIC scientists predict the Sahara Desert could get up to 75% more rainfall by 2100. Using 40 climate models, they foresee ...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has adopted a resolution supporting Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. The ...

The U.N. Security Council on Friday approved a resolution backing Morocco’s claim to the disputed Western Sahara, a shift ...

According to the plan, Western Sahara would form an autonomous region within Morocco, managing its own executive, legislative, and judicial affairs through locally elected institutions.

Morocco's king on Friday lauded as "historic" a UN Security Council decision to support his country's plan for Western Sahara, a disputed territory that has provoked decades of conflict between Rabat ...

The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday stating that genuine autonomy for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty could be the most feasible solution to Rabat's 50-year ...

The West African nation of Mali, one of the countries comprising the Sahel region to the south of the Sahara Desert, has been fighting extremists for years. But a coalition of al-Qaeda and ISIS ...