The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

Ubari, Libya is a surreal desert oasis where color-changing lakes shimmer amid Saharan dunes. Salt-rich, ancient, and ...

Between 5,000 and 14,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert looked nothing like it does today. It was lush and green, with lakes ...

The Libyan Sahara holds the world's heat record (136°F) and can chill the bones on a winter night. Ibrahim al-Koni, Libya's leading novelist, was raised as a Tuareg in the Fezzan.

Today, the view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya is of endless sandy dunes and barren rock, but 7,000 years ago, this region of the Sahara Desert was a far lusher, hospitable ...

Suicide attacks on a French-run mine and a military base in northern Niger have shown how an Islamist threat is spreading across the weak nations of the Sahara, meaning France may be tied down ...

(Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or ...

The International Space Station was flying 261 miles above the Sahara Desert when this photograph was taken of the Murzuq District in central Libya. iss064e029454 (Feb. 5, 2021) – larger imag… ...

PARIS, March 29 (Reuters) - Libya has pre-selected Arab Bank , Arab Banking Corp , BNP Paribas HSBC , Societe Generale and Standard Chartered for the privatisation of the country's Sahara Bank ...

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few ... Algeria, Tunisia and Libya on Sept. 7 and 8, ...