Forced on the retreat in its former colonies in West Africa, France has officially endorsed Morocco's illegal occupation of Western Sahara, and struck deals to partner in extracting its resources.

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

Macron's “strategic framework” is a proposal to use Morocco as a source of cheap qualified labor and logistics to boost ...

Mali’s Transitional National Council passed a law on October 31 that makes homosexuality a criminal offense. The new ...

This season, intense heat over the Sahara and other factors pulled the ... Chad and parts of western Mali. Some areas in western Niger and Mali, and the border between Niger and Nigeria, saw ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.

The U.N. is pushing for a plan to split Western Sahara as a possible solution to the long-standing conflict in the region. Staffan de Mistura, U.N. envoy to Western Sahara, revealed his idea of ...

Photo: AP. In a rare and dramatic turn of events, parts of the Sahara Desert witnessed severe flooding after two days of torrential rainfall in southeastern Morocco, exceeding the region's yearly ...

Abdelatty acknowledged the unstable situation in the Sahel and Sahara, highlighting the presence of active terrorist groups ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades. The ...