In 2023, Gen. Michael Langley, commander of U.S. Africa Command, warned that African countries face new destabilizing challenges, including “climate change [that] is increasing desertification ...

Algeria is in several ways a giant hiding in plain sight. In the band of fertile land that hugs its Mediterranean coast are historic cities like Constantine , Oran , and the capital Algiers.

One of the dams, and its projected 35 billion cubic feet reservoir, is only 19 miles from Morocco’s border with Algeria.The watershed filling the reservoir flows southeasterly, not further into ...