Floods across a swath of central and West Africa have displaced at least 2.9 million people, killed about 1 000 and are ...

Massive, migrating dust clouds originating in the Sahara Desert are crucial to fostering life in the Atlantic Ocean as far ...

September 22, 2024: In the African country of Mali, Russian Wagner Group mercenaries went looking for some low-risk, high-paying work during July 2024. What they got was a massacre that left all the ...

Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the further it travels.

The answer is found on the other side of the Atlantic, where the Sahara Desert just had weeks of unprecedented rainfall.

Iron bound to dust from the Sahara blown westward over the Atlantic has properties that change with the distance traveled.

For years the U.S. has indirectly contributed to an outbreak of terrorist violence in a region of West Africa known as the Sahel. Ongoing conflicts in the Sahel region, spanning from Senegal to ...

On September 9, jihadist militants launched a coordinated assault on several Christian villages in Burkina Faso, resulting in ...

Iron is a micronutrient indispensable for life, enabling processes such as respiration, photosynthesis, and DNA synthesis.

Floods across a swath of central and West Africa have displaced at least 2.9 million people, killed about 1,000 and are ...

African states need to start working more closely with their neighbours, both in terms of purchasing disaster supplies as well as in responding to emergencies. Many African countries are very small, ...

Iron contained in Saharan dust, blown across the Atlantic, is beneficial to ocean life and becomes more beneficial, the ...