The Alliance of Sahel States, comprising military-controlled countries including Mali, Niger Republic and Burkina Faso, has ...

West Africa's cattle herders are being stripped of their animals by extremist-linked armed groups as the deadly conflict in ...

West Africa's cattle herders are being stripped of their animals by extremist-linked armed groups as the deadly conflict in ...

The Numbers Don't Lie About Desert Growth The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new ...

Speaking in Abuja at a forum on preventing violence and conflict in northern Nigeria, organised by the National Peace Committee, The Kukah Centre, and the Office of the National Security Adviser, ...

It is no coincidence that the UN resolution points to the United States as the host for these final negotiations. The ...

Fifty years after the historic Green March, international experts gathered at the MEDays Forum to examine Morocco’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Three years ago, Mali’s military junta expelled French troops, a two-fingered gesture to the old colonial power ...

The attack occurred on 22 November in Karonji village (also known as Duruma) in Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State.

Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.

The Netherlands reaffirmed its support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan, describing it as the most feasible to end the dispute over Western Sahara.

The reverberations of UN Security Council Resolution 2797 — which calls for “granting Western Sahara genuine autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty” — are still being felt in Morocco, Algeria and ...