This battle can be won': desert expert reveals how China's technology, funding and strategies aid ambitious environmental ...

An ambitious and bold project looks to help desertification in Africa and to combat African nations from being swallowed up ...

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By analyzing the DNA of Fulani people, researchers led by @HopkinsMedicine revealed a shared genetic component among all ...

For those drawn to adventure travel, the legends of the Iron Ore Train may call out. Yet, beyond the hype and excitement, ...

Deserts, including the Sahara, are expanding at unprecedented ... Such “green belts” have been proposed on a continent-wide scale as Africa's “Great Green Wall” as well as locally, in ...

The 46th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union took place in February 2025 in Addis Ababa. The ...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

Former Spanish Defense Minister José Bono has asserted that Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for the Saharais “the most efficient formula” for resolving the long-standing territorial dispute over Western ...

Morocco has also won backing from Western Sahara's former colonial power Spain, as well as Israel and more than two dozen African and Arab nations. The Polisario in 2020 withdrew from a U.N ...