A 2017 satellite photo shows the stark contrast along the boundary between a giant field of golden "star dunes" and a barren ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes. Aa Aa ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way. Indeed, vegetation ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

A cloud of dust escapes from an excavation site in the sand of Chad's arid north, where scientists are looking for signs of ...

Western Sahara’s history—nor the history of the peoples of the wider Maghreb region—did not begin or end with an advisory ...

With symbolic ties going back to the 1960s, China is now also Morocco’s third-largest investor. In Beijing, Moroccan foreign ...

South Africa appears unwilling to adopt the international consensus supporting Morocco’s Autonomy Plan to end Western Sahara.