Residents, seemingly resigned to their fate, speak of the desert as an inevitable destiny ... mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts, covering ...

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Namibia's Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is inaugurated as the country's first woman president, pledging to tackle youth unemployment ...

One ex-capital city is home to 4,200 millionaires and two billionaires, making it the richest city in West Africa, and the fifth wealthiest city in the whole continent. In this sprawling city ...

It has alarmed neighboring states — including in North Africa and coastal west Africa — and worried ... able to locate a cache of weapons in the desert near Morocco’s border with Algeria ...

Russia exploits instability to expand influence and weaken adversaries, from Ukraine to Syria to the Sahel. In West Africa, ...

A band of robbers targets a train in the remote desert of Arizona, sneaking on board, slashing an air hose and forcing the locomotive to come to a dead halt. Then they take the goods and flee.