Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

Attempts to tame the Sahara Desert spawned some seriously cool, strange, and innovative vehicles during the 20th century.

Niger, along with its neighbors Burkina Faso and Mali, has for over a decade battled an insurgency ... But the security situation in the Sahel, a vast region on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, has ...

Niger, along with its neighbors Burkina Faso and Mali, has for over a decade battled an insurgency ... But the security situation in the Sahel, a vast region on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, has ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

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This was France's last foothold in the region, West Africa's vast expanse below the Sahara desert. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger all kicked the French army out following coup d'états in recent years ...

For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, secured a rare interview with a leader of JNIM, ...

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square kilometers, it ranks as the largest hot desert on our planet. To give you a sense ...

Every now and again, the Sahara Desert in North Africa will kick up a storm and spread dust clouds across Europe and other parts of the world. Remarkably, the sand still carries traces of ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, secured a rare interview ...