Nemcha, Zina and Zouina, three North African Sloughi hounds, play on the beach in Tunisia where their ancestors have long ...

They formed in 1995 as young lads (group leader Abindi was 9), playing Niger’s demanding wedding circuit and singing in Tamasheq, a language spoken mainly by nomadic tribes in North and West Africa.

Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September.

The new £44bn mega-city in the middle of the desert with Africa's tallest tower It will be a smart city with AI-powered infrastructure, 5G, and high-tech security systems.

A lush, green Arabian Desert may have once linked Africa and Asia. Long-gone grasslands may have provided migration routes at times over the past 8 million years.

Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying across the increasingly hot northern part of their range. Mongabay contributor Leonie Joubert reports that a combination of ...

Season 12 will kick off on at 9 P.M. EST on Thursday, June 12 on The History Channel. There’s also an exclusive preview of the season that’s available on demand to all TV platforms that offer ...

A stunning dry lake in Africa that is famous for its towering red sand dunes is one of the world’s best destinations to visit in April. Located in the southern part of the Namib Desert ...

To bolster its creation, a coalition of area tribes also identified more than 10,000 artifacts, worship sites and other traces of Native American life here. Those cannot be moved, and all of the ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 28 October 2024 Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former ...