The Latest Breaking News from Sahara

The ancient city of Chinguetti is succumbing to a sea of sand – Sam Metz discovers how its residents are dealing with concerns over the future

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as researchers previously assumed due to an abundance of fossils in places like Argentina and Zimbabwe.

The Sahel region of Africa, between the Sahara and the tropical savannahs to the south, has emerged as a significant base of groups that want to establish jihadist states.

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This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by migrating sand dunes, helping researchers track how far these dunes can move over time.

In September, amid the ongoing war in Sudan, reports began to surface of the looting of the Sudan National Museum in the capital, Khartoum. The museum is internationally celebrated for the breadth of its collection. It illustrates powerful and unique African kingdoms from the ancient and medieval past in a…

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few days.

As dusk fell on the edge of Nouakchott, Kayo the husky left a trail of paw prints in the warm Sahara sand, an incongruous yet increasingly familiar sight in Mauritania.

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has reaffirmed that settling sovereignty disputes over the Western Sahara remains the driving force behind Rabat's foreign policy, lauding diplomatic triumphs and framing them as progress toward resolving the decades-long conflict in Morocco's favour.

More than year’s worth of rain fell in two days in south-east Morocco, filling up lake that had been dry for decades

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its most drought-stricken regions with more water than many had seen in decades